It's All About The Girls celebrate another win for Youcrackmeup © Photo Healy Racing
Youcrackmeup again defied the assessor, as well as a pronounced drift in the market, to win the Neville O'Byrne Memorial Irish EBF Fillies Handicap.
The daughter of Cracksman, who had gone up 25lbs in the space of three runs since winning off a mark of 65 on handicap debut at Roscommon in June, went off at 13/2 having headed the overnight betting at 7/4.
In front after a couple of furlongs in the mile-and-a-half contest, Shane Foley's mount found plenty under pressure in the straight to see a succession of challengers and had a neck to spare over Esquiline at the line.
As ever, the It's All About The Girls syndicate were present in numbers to welcome in their winner whose trainer Jessica Harrington said: “From where she's come from to now, she's game as anything.
“That ground was quick enough for her. She might get into the Cesarewitch now, we might have to win another race before it!
“She's some tough filly. Shane said she stays and every time something comes to her she goes again. We do nothing with her in between (races), she keeps herself fit.
“She might make a nice three-year-old hurdler or we could look at a mile-and-a-half stakes race later in the year in deep ground. Something like the Oyster Stakes at Galway as she's won around there.
“We could look at black-type, you wouldn't know where we could go with her. She does like a dig in the ground and that's probably as good as she wants it.
“She's been some fun filly for her owners and we were very nearly selling her at the start of the year because she was showing us nothing.
“There was disbelief when she won in Roscommon because she had shown nothing. I said 'we'll put a pair of blinkers on her and make her go out in front' and she hasn't looked back.
“She really shouldn't have got beaten in Limerick either and Jamie (Powell) was killing himself after it.”
Quotes from Gary Carson
