High Focus and Kevin Manning© Photo Healy Racing
Freshened up off a break stretching back to April, High Focus was produced fit and well by Jim Bolger, to take the second split of the Dan Dooley Ford Centre Handicap at Tipperary.
Kevin Manning was in the plate on the seven times previously tried daughter of Intense Focus, and as a 13/2 chance on this occasion she was brought through from the back of the field in the straight.
On a career low mark of 54, the four-year-old got up close home to shed her maiden tag, defeating Malicious Intent by a length.
Bolger and Manning had gone close with another home-bred daughter of Ballylinch Stud's Intense Focus, earlier on the card, Special Focus coming home in third in the 7.10.
C.D. Hayes, rider of Tamisa trained by John J. Walsh, reported to the Stewards' Secretaries that his mount received accidental interference approximately one furlong from home.
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