Seamie charge thrills Aiden

IRISH RACING

BROADWAY took the honours with a game success in the Group 3 Denny Cordell Lavarack & Lanwades Stud Fillies Stakes at Gowran yesterday.

The Aidan O’brien-trained winner has been set some stiff tasks since winning her maiden in May but she showed that she belongs in pattern race company.

Seamie Heffernan (above) produced the 8/1 chance with a strong charge over the last furlong and a half to defeat Panstarr and English raider Snowy Winter.

“She’s a Galileo filly and they are amazing. They just keep getting better and better with racing,” said O’brien. “Seamus said that she’d stay a mile and a half so we might look at the good fillies race on Champions Day at Ascot.”

Earlier O’brien teamed up with his son Donnacha to win both of the two-year-old maidens on the card.

The O’briens struck first with Pink Dogwood who dominated the fillies maiden to earn a shot at the Fillies Mile or the Prix Marcel Boussac.

It was then the turn of Circus Maximus in the colts maiden which he won with something to spare despite drifting badly left late on.

Donnacha O’brien then went on to record a treble of his own on Best Not Argue, trained by his brother Joseph, in the first division of the 45-65 rated handicap.

This victory means that O’brien heads into tomorrow’s Fairyhouse fixture needing just one more victory to record his first century of winners.