Improved Conduct gets rewarded

The expectation might have been that Conduct Yourself would go off at odds-on for the www.tramore-racecourse.com Handicap Hurdle. She didn't, 11/10 being the odds of reward, and John Kiely's mare gained a second course victory when defying top-weight under Brian Hayes.

Victorious at Killarney on her last start on May 16th, here the daughter of King's Theatre led from the penultimate flight, after Thats Mypresenting (third here last evening) got that hurdle wrong.

It was left to Courtin Bb to come through and chase Conduct Yourself home, at a distance of three lengths.

"I thought the handicapper might have had her, but it wasn't a strong race," acknowledged Kiely.

"If we can find a good race over a distance she might get in off a low weight," he added.

"There is one in Gowran coming up (the Jack Duggan Memorial Handicap Hurdle). She handles good ground and she is an improved mare from last year."

(DM & EM)