Lyons has a ball with his Curragh debutants

Ger Lyons sent out a second newcomer filly to win at the Curragh today as his Elegant Pose doubled the trainer’s score for the day in the concluding Irish Stallion Farms EBF (Fillies) Maiden, with Lyons’ stable jockey Colin Keane also completing a double.

Lyons’ Black Sails earlier won on debut for owner Qatar Racing Limited and Elegant Pose, a daughter of Elusive Pimpernel in the colours of Anamoine Limited, completed the double three hours later. The well related filly gamely held off the challenge of fellow newcomer New Terms in the closing stages for a half length win.

Lyons later commented “she is a sister to Brendan Brackan (a prolific and Group 3 winner for the yard), and is highly thought of in the stables. We started her off over a mile and we think she will get ten furlongs. She doesn’t want extremes of ground, and Colin said the rain that came has left the track riding beautiful and it suited her.

“She is a filly that is a little bit special and it’s nice for Mrs Patino (Anamoine owner) to have another nice filly. We don’t have too many to run for her this summer, and I’d like to think she is a black type filly.”

By Tom Weekes, quotes from Alan Magee