Yard favourite gets off the mark on last start of 2018

This flat season has gone swimmingly well for Patrick Prendergast and the Group 1 winning trainer gained plenty satisfaction from the win of his yard favourite Canary Row in the Kone Handicap at Galway today.

Prendergast gained his initial top level success with Skitter Scatter in the Moyglare Stud Stakes at the Curragh in September and today his Canary Row bridged a year gap between wins, when scoring under jockey Ross Coakley.

Canary Row's previous win was in a Listed event at Killarney, on soft ground, in August 2017 and following today's win Prendergast said “I'm delighted with that as it looked like we were going to go through the year without winning one with him.

“He has never a handicap from a mark higher than 87 and he is getting older and mightn't be as good as he once was. He hasn't the zip he once had but that ground slowed the pace down a little bit. He's dangerous in the 80s.

“He is a great lead horse and we're very fond of him. He'll be back again for the Lincoln next March.”