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Doyle delivers as daughter bags first winner
Knockanard Lady and Susie Doyle
© Photo Healy Racing
Susie Doyle was a second trainer's child to ride a first winner over the past two days racing today, steering Knockanard Lady (9/1) to win Punchestown's Irish Stallion Farms EBF INH Bumper for her father Pat Doyle.
By Fame And Glory and out of an unraced sister to Irish National winner Thunder And Roses, newcomer Knockanard Lady quickened clear of Brookline in the final furlong to score by a length and a quarter.
Doyle junior had ridden 14 point-to-point winners but following today's race said “I've been trying to have a track winner for a while and I asked Dad for one thing this year and that was a winner on the track, so he delivered!
“It is a brilliant place to ride my first winner so I couldn't ask for much more.”
She added “she has done it well and we thought if she was fit enough, she's be good enough. She was and should be a good one to go forward.
“I wanted to track Patrick Mullins (on favourite Brookline) the whole way and when I gave her a squeeze, she really picked up and went away to the line. ”
Doyle is a younger sister of American-based jumps jockey Jack Doyle and her win followed Ross Berry's (son of trainer John Berry) success at the Kildare venue yesterday.