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Opera winner Weld on song with Killarney double
Shamiyna and Oisin Orr
© Photo Healy Racing
Legendary trainer Dermot Weld completed another fine day's work with a Killarney double as Shamiyna won the Carrauntoohil Fillies Race minutes after his similarly-Aga Khan owned Tarnawa had won Longchamp's Prix De L'Opera.
It is 21 days since Weld's Prix Vermeille/Irish St Leger Group 1 double with Tarnawa and Search For A Song and while the Weld Book of Records has another entry today, it is also just 19 days since the sad passing of his former stable jockey Pat Smullen.
At Killarney, Coltor won a maiden before Shamiyna completed a double for Weld and jockey Oisin Orr.
Shamiyna, a daughter of Shamardal, beat another former Longchamp heroine Princess Yaiza winner of the 2018 Prix De Royallieu, into second place, in a race run minutes after the Weld trained Tarnawa's French success under Christophe Soumillon,
Orr later reported “she (Shamiyna) is now showing what she has been showing us at home and she jumped and settled lovely today and picked up when I asked her and put the race to bed.
“She is improving all the time and hopefully she keeps going; I think she is up to Stakes company and will be a nice filly for next year.”