Search
Cheltenham 2024
- Main Site
- Cheltenham Home
- Cheltenham Cards
- Cheltenham Results
- Cheltenham Offers
- Cheltenham Odds
- Cheltenham Tips
- Cheltenham News
- Prestbury Cup
- Cheltenham Videos
-
Cheltenham Statistics
- Leading Trainer
- Leading Jockeys
- Leading Owners
- Previous Years
- Previous Appearances
- Breeding Profile of Winners
- Lady Jockeys at The Festival
- Leading Jockey Award Winners
- Most Successful Jockeys of All Time
- Current Jockeys Competing at Cheltenham
- Most Successful Jockey In..
- Leading Trainer Award Winners
- Most Successfull Trainer All Time
- Current Trainers Competing at Cheltenham
- Most Successful Trainer In..
- Cheltenham Trainer/Runner Index
- Desktop Site
Cheltenham 2024
- irishracing.com
- Cheltenham
- News
- Flight Of Fancy completes quick double for connections
Alan Magee
Flight Of Fancy completes quick double for connections
Flight Of Fancy and Wayne Lordan
© Photo Healy Racing
Flight Of Fancy completed a quick double for Aidan O’Brien, Wayne Lordan and the Coolmore partners when readily justifying odds-on favouritism in division two of the Conference & Banqueting At Limerick Racecourse Maiden.
The 94-rated daughter of Galileo held obvious claims in this mile event and the 8/11 shot was prominent throughout before leading over a furlong out.
She quickly asserted under Lordan and kept on well to beat newcomer Newtown Duke who put in some eye-catching work in the closing stages, by a length and three-quarters. Breathe Again was a further two and a quarter lengths back in third.
The same connections were also on the mark in division one of this maiden when newcomer Bomberg obliged at 11/2.
Stable representative Chris Armstrong said, “She had the form in the book coming here and if she ran close to her mark you would have thought she would’ve been very hard to beat.
“The plan was to come here to act as a nice confidence booster and then go to the Cairn Rouge at Killarney in ten days time and try to get the black type.
“This race fitted the schedule nicely. Wayne kept it simple and it worked out lovely.”