Pearl Of Africa (yellow) stays on best to score under Fergal Lynch with Slipper Orchid (grey silks) finishing second© Photo Healy Racing
Having won the fourth with Penny Serenade Eddie Lynam doubled up in the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Fillies Handicap, as Fergal Lynch got his Pearl Of Africa up on the line to beat the 7/4 favourite Slipper Orchid
Gary Carroll attempted to steal the race from the front aboard Goldplated but she was reeled in inside the final furlong.
Slipper Orchid then hit the front under Shane Foley for Mick Halford but she couldn’t hold off the late surge of Pearl Of Africa, going down by a head at the line.
The winning three-year-old daughter of Jeremy, who was carrying over a stone less that the winner, won her maiden on the sixth time of asking at Dundalk in April and she was making her handicap debut this evening.
Fergal Lynch said afterwards: "Fran (Berry) rode him the last day and he liked her a lot. Eddie told me to track the favourite and to leave it late, although I didn't mean to leave it that late!"
Additional reporting by Alan Magee
