Angelo Dundee won a bumper at the festival here with the trainer's only runner at the meeting, and he repeated that trick when the unraced reserve Barry Lyndon landed the first division of the 2m maiden hurdle, again the Ratoath handler's only runner of the day.Ĭonor Maxwell was on board as the son of Imperial Monarch overcame his greenness and some novicey jumping to reel in more experienced rivals Extrapolation and Sign Form Above close home to score by two and a quarter lengths at odds of 40-1. She relaxed there today for Danny and he said not to be afraid to step her up to two and a half miles."ĭermot McLoughlin is rapidly becoming a trainer to follow at this venue. We pitched her in at the deep end here last month, just to teach her as much as anything. "She made a mistake at the last at Naas first time, I thought she would nearly have won but for that. Danny was very happy with her and said that she has grown up a lot. We thought we could have a bit of fun with her and she did it well in the end. O'Callaghan said: "We picked her up at the horses-in-training sale last autumn. The daughter of Postponed had performed with credit when fifth at last month's festival meeting, and found this task significantly easier as she survived a mistake at the final flight under Danny Mullins to hold off the more experienced Mister Wilson by three lengths. Michael O'Callaghan does not have too many to run over hurdles, but he might just have a useful filly in Night Sparkle who ran out a convincing winner of the four-year-old maiden hurdle.
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