Annie shows her love for Wexford again Punters latched on to a previous course winner in Celestial Prospect in the 4.30 and there was some of them alert to the chance of Annie Other (winner of a bumper and a novice chase here previously) in the Owenavarragh (Q.R.) Maiden at Wexford. Like Celestial Prospect too, Annie Other (8s this morning into 5/1) was coming off a bit of a break, having not run since September, but she was fit and well enough to score in the two miler under Roger Quinlan (came here after riding the first winner at the Durrow point-to-point near Tullamore on Gordon Elliott's Is Love Alive). Equipped with a first-time hood (a type more commonly seen in the show-jumping ring), Pat Doyle's Annie Other led under two furlongs out from the well-backed favourite, Un Beau Roman. She stayed on well in the final furlong to comfortably beat Dynaperformer by five lengths. Doyle revealed: "She loves it around here. She wants quick ground and on her run behind Blazing Tempo at Kilbeggan the last day she was a certainty here today. "She'll go for a conditions chase maybe next if we get quick ground somewhere and then we might go for the amateur handicap at Galway. "After the way she won there we're entitled to think that way. "The owner (Elizabeth O'Leary) is from Castlelyons near Fermoy." (DM & EM)
