Verbosity hacks up in Cork

Strong-travelling Verbosity put her rivals to the sword in emphatic fashion in the extended mile nursery at Cork.

Jim Gorman 's filly moved up to second place behind Ravens Hill approaching the half-way point.

She was full of running as the field swept into the home straight. Ronan Whelan then brought her to tackle the leader two and a half furlongs from home.

She asserted with a quarter of a mile to negotiate and was clear racing to the final furlong. The daughter of Vocalised hit the line four lengths to the good at 7/1. Dewdrop the 9/4 favourite from an opening show of 7/2, could make no impression on the winner and had to settle for second. Ravens Hill was a further three lengths back in third at 20/1.

Jim Gorman said: "She ran into two very good fillies at Galway and then, while she wouldn't have won, didn't get the clearest of runs the last day.

"She did it well and I've no doubt she'll get an extra distance. If I have my way she'll run at Leopardstown in another nursery, which is the last opportunity of the year for her, but I'll have to speak to the boss (owner and fellow trainer Jim Bolger)!"

This was Verbosity's first success on her sixth attempt. She came home third in each of her last four appearances.

Additional reporting by Thomas Weekes