Flame lands double for Cromwell and Donoghue

Jeremys Flame wore down front-runner Kitty Galore on the run-in to claim the Guinness Handicap Chase at Galway and give Gavin Cromwell and Keith Donoghue a double on the card.

The Jeremy mare, sixth in the Galway Blazers at the festival meeting, went to post 9/4 favourite dropping back to two-miles-two.

Donoghue tracked the leader before driving his mount up to challenge turning for home.

She got to the front in the closing stages and was pulling away at the line to record a two-and-a-quarter length success.

Donoghue and Cromwell had also teamed up with Money Heist in the handicap hurdle earlier on the card.

The winning trainer said:- “She ran well here in the Blazers. I was a little bit concerned about the ground today that it might be too soft but it was fine.

“She got a little bit close to the second last but toughed it out well.

“She has a pile of placed black-type but has never won a black-type race and I’d love to win one somewhere for her.

“We had her in the Kerry National but it was a bit too quick for her. We could look at the Paddy Power in Leopardstown and the Plate next year is very much a possibility.”

(Quotes by Alan Magee)