Shane Gray & Noel Dooly after the success of Kims Dream© Photo Healy Racing
Kims Dream completed her hat-trick of wins as she took the Keen Print Handicap under Shane Gray (partnered her for all three wins) for Noel Dooly.
The six-year-old daughter of Antonius Pius started the sequence at Wexford last month and she followed up at Tramore on Friday last.
Given ten pounds for her win at Tramore, she was five pounds well-in this evening, as she was running under the mandatory five pound winners penalty.
Backed from 9/4 to 7/4 clear favourite on-course, she was settled behind the leaders for much of the contest, and was eighth at the halfway stage.
She made headway into third two furlongs out, as she travelled strongly on the outside. Ridden to lead a furlong and a half from home, she kept on well under pressure in the closing stages to see off the challenge of Timjoe by half a length.
The runner-up was returned at 8/1 under Connor King for Terence O’Brien, while Montrel finished a close up third at 4/1 under Fran Berry for Eddie Harty.
Noel Dooly, who is from Tramore, but trains in Clonroche, Co Wexford, said afterwards: "She’s done nothing really for the last few days, apart from jumping a few barrels.
"She got ten pound for winning on Friday at Tramore, so what she’ll get on top of that I don’t know.
"There is a fillies handicap at the Curragh on Sunday week that we might look at, and she’ll probably go back over hurdles on good ground."
Additional reporting by Alan Magee
