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Mark Nunan
Bounce The Blues off the mark on third start
Bounce The Blues and Gavin Ryan (right) win from So Wonderful
© Photo Healy Racing
The well-backed Bounce The Blues (11/1 in the morning, returned 3/1 second favourite) was a decisive winner of the Baroda Stud (Fillies) Maiden.
Gavin Ryan, leading Flat jockey at Galway with five winners at the Festival, brought her through to head the front-running 5/4 favourite So Wonderful over a furlong from home and the Excelebration filly ran on well to score by a length and three quarters.
Homebred by owner James Browne at his Kilnamoragh Stud and a half-sister to dual Group 3 Jazz Princess, the winner was fourth over 7f on debut at Gowran in early July before not quite matching that over a mile at the same track on her second start.
Winning trainer John Feane explained: “She’s done that well. We were disappointed the last day at Gowran.
“She was drawn wide the first day (also at Gowran) and ran a cracker and she was drawn low the last day and it didn’t work out.
The draw worked against her as the ground was soft and they tacked over to the stands’ rail and she raced on her own.
“She handled that ground well today.”
Additional reporting by Alan Magee