Baby Kate maintains Mullins' stranglehold on bumpers Patrick Mullins made it 29 winners for the season (from just 47 rides) when 8/13 favourite Baby Kate came late to land the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Fillies Flat Race. The daughter of unbeaten bumper performer and classy hurdler Augusta Kate was kept wide and tracked the leaders in a steadily-run affair. Ridden along in fourth a furlong out, she gave her supporters a few anxious moments before picking up well in the short straight to collar Switch From Diesel in the final hundred yards and beat that rival by a length. Willie Mullins trains the winner who is leased by the Gorm Agus Ban Syndicate.  "It very much turned into a sprint, " said the winning rider. "When they race around the home bend here, it's quite tight and it just took her a while to get organised but I was always happy that I was going to get there. "She's very like her mother, a little wider than her, and I think she'll improve a lot from that and I think she'll be able to go out in trip." "It's great, Augusta Kate is another one of our ex-mares that has now produced a winner for us, the same as Annie Power and Quevega. We have a Galileo out of Vroum Vroum Mag too but he's probably a couple of months away. "Kevin Doyle (ex-footballer) bred her and leased her to the lads who are from Old Leighlin Gaels GAA Club which is local to us. It's good for the lads, that's the third horse they've had since (three-time winner) Nikini and the first one to get to the track, so that's the luck you need."
