Osca Loca and Chris O Donovan leads Trumps Ace over the last© Photo Healy Racing
Catriona Beame enjoyed a never-to-be-forgotten half hour at Cork races today as the winning owner and wife of late breeder Carl Beame had a winner with Osca Loca in the Glenview&Rathbarry Studs Hunters Chase, half an hour after becoming a grandmother.
Ridden today by Chris O'Donovan, the Michael Winters trained Osca Loca readily justified 13/8 favouritism when impressively stretching clear on the run-in for an easy win over runner-up Trumps Ace
American-born Carl Beame passed away last year, having successfully raced Osca Loca's dam Lohort Castle, four of whose progeny have now won races.
After the race trainer Winters revealed “the owner Carl Beame passed away last year and his wife Catriona Beame became a grandmother half an hour ago with a baby girl, just as the race was about to start. That took the pressure off me!
“She lives straight across the road, over the ditch, from here in Waterloo Stud.”
Winters was himself enjoying a notable half-hour, having also won the earlier race with Littlestickarubard, and added “all that pedigree takes time to mature and after falling in her first point-to-point we went back over hurdles but then the ground got too hard so we had to stop. Maybe there is a lot of luck in things.
“She won her first point-to-point well and was good in Knockanard and then went back to her owners. She is only back less that three weeks and they have done a great job with her again.
“My horses are healthy again and she came back in terrific form.
“She could go novice hurdling or novice chasing next season but if you had a good mare for hunter chasing wouldn't it be nice.
“She has three half-sisters to come along and the dam breeding and while she (owner Catriona Beame) can't keep them all, maybe we might coax her around to it!”
