Fly To The Moon, right, beats The Organ Grinder© Photo Healy Racing
Fly To The Moon (5/1) showed marked improvement for her first step into a nursery as she came out on top of a battle with The Organ Grinder at the Curragh.
David Wachman’s Holy Roman Emperor filly had finished unplaced in three maidens but notably the winners of those races were Heart Focus, Glassatura and Avenue Gabriel.
In today’s encounter over six furlongs she raced in third off the leader Bluebell and Harlem Shake before Wayne Lordan delivered her challenge inside the final furlong.
Bluebell was overtaken by Fly To The Moon and 2/1 favourite The Organ Grinder with half a furlong to race and the pair battled all the way to the line with Fly To The Moon getting the decision by a neck.
“Wayne gave her a very good ride. It was a big drop in class from the maidens she was running in and it was probably an ordinary nursery,” David Wachman said.
Bluebell was three and a quarter lengths away in third.
Wachman is now three from six in two-year-old handicaps at the Curragh over the last four seasons for a level stake profit of 17.50 euro. Fly To The Moon had been 8/1 this morning.
Additional reporting by Alan Magee
