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- Friary Rock sharpens up nicely in first-time blinkers
Mark Nunan
Friary Rock sharpens up nicely in first-time blinkers
Friary Rock and Phillip Enright
© Photo Healy Racing
The RSS Document Storage Maiden Hurdle went to Friary Rock (4/1) under Phillip Enright for trainer Mouse Morris.
Never far away in first-time blinkers, the Spanish Moon gelding challenged the front-running 9/5 favourite Talk Of The Town racing to the final flight and stayed on well on the run-in to draw six and a half lengths clear of that one.
Hesamanofhisword (2/1) was a further five lengths back in third.
The winner had some decent runs in competitive maidens during the winter and clearly came on for his comeback run at this track earlier this month.
Winning rider Phillip Enright said: “He promised a lot as a young horse. He’d a very good run in a bumper, and a very good run over hurdles his first two runs and then he disappointed a bit.
"He’d a nice run here the last day for his first run back. JJ Slevin rode him and thought the blinkers might sharpen him up. Mouse’s horses are in great form and the blinkers worked.
"He stayed great. He always showed that he’d stay and he was good and brave at the last and I think that won it."