Daintree (Nathan Crosse) beating Hypernova© Photo Healy Racing
Daintree showed significant improvement to follow up a five-furlong win here earlier this month by landing the DundalkStadium.com Rated Race in fine style.
The Jimmy Coogan-trained filly justified good support when beating Form Of Praise by half-a-length 12 days ago, with Sosallycanwait finishing strongly just behind in fourth, but was sent off a 12/1 chance here meeting those rivals on much worse terms.
Nathan Crosse produced the daughter of Dandy Man from off the pace to head the front-running favourite Hypernova about a furlong out and she kept on strongly to beat that rival by a-length-and-three-quarters. Juno Beach was a further length-and-a-half back in third.
Coogan said, “She's improving all the time. I said we'd give her a run in it and obviously Ado's horse, no disrespect to him, didn't turn up on the day. We beat him by half a length the last day and we were 18lb worse off so realistically we had no chance of beating him.
“She's improving with every run. I'd say the handicapper won't miss her now but that's two she's won now so it's great.
“Emmanuel's mother was looking down on her, the woman who bred her. We only buried her last Wednesday.
“I've an association with the family since Up And At 'Em. I've been training horses for the family for 30 years now so that's a great result.”
(GC & AM)
