Beauty Thunder gets his maiden 'opening' Beauty Thunder (11/4, from 4/1) made it third time lucky today, winning Roscommon's interesting Irish Stallion Farms EBF Maiden for trainer Ger Lyons, the Beauty Stable Partnership and jockey Colin Keane. The starting stalls for the race failed to open following an initial button-push from starter Derek Cullen with the anticipating horses causing the stalls to sway, and required an immediate second push. Winner Beauty Thunder began well and made virtually all to beat Thor's Hammer by a half-length. Ballydoyle's Cambridge was an eye-catcher in third and having anticipated the initial 'start', eventually raced in rear before finishing well. Winning trainer Ger Lyons was represented by his brother Shane Lyons who said “we're delighted with that, he's (Beauty Thunder) a work in progress. “He was fresh and free for the first furlong in Galway, where he got a bump coming out of the stalls and it lit him up. Galway made a man of him, he learned an awful lot from it.” He added “there was a little bit of a ragged start there, and the lads were shouting, and he was in Colin's hands but because of Galway he did everything right in front. He was very game. “He's a Night Of Thunder and they handle that ground, which is a plus. Colin said hopefully going forward he might get a nice mark for a nursery and then we can take it from there.” Quotes from Gary Carson
