Gone For Tea (noseband) outpoints Instant Tendance © Photo Healy Racing
Sam Ewing, successful in the opener on odds-on chance Mordor completed a double at Sligo when taking the featured Irish Stallion Farms EBF Mares Handicap Hurdle on the Peter Fahey-trained Gone For Tea (10/1).
A bumper winner at Bellewstown last summer, the daughter of Champs Elysees had been down the field on handicap debut at Ballinrobe on her previous outing but bounced back to form, coming through to tackle 7/2 favourite Instant Tendance after the last and getting the better of that rival by three parts of a length.
Fahey said of Peter Murphy's six-year-old: "On her last two runs she was a bit keen. Getting her switched off was a big help and she finished off very well.
"She's a handy little filly and can sometimes get a little bit intimidated if there is anything going on ahead of her, but she was good today and I like the way she picked up from the back of the last.
"It probably wasn't the strongest of races but if she got a couple of pounds, hopefully she'd get into the mares' handicap hurdle at Galway and that's where we'd like to go with her.
"We love going to Galway and myself and my wife Ber stay down for the week and enjoy it."
