Fallen Angel and Danny Tudhope© Photo Healy Racing
Fallen Angel provided owner/breeder Steve Parkin, of Clipper Logistics, with a poignant success in the Curragh's Group 1 Moyglare Stud Stakes today, scoring for UK trainer Karl Burke and jockey Danny Tudhope.
The Too Darn Hot-filly was a Group 3 winner at Newmarket in August and while faced with a stiff challenge from Group 2-victor Vespertilio in the final furlong, produced a battling performance to score by a length and a quarter.
Retiring Frankie Dettori bowed-out from Ireland with a dead-heat for third place on Porta Fortuna while Ballydoyle's Ylang Ylang the 5/6f, faded tamely to finish last.
Winning trainer Burke wasn't present and afterwards Parkin revealed “we bred her but lost the mother to colic. That’s the last foal out of the mother and she is the spitting image of her mother - 'emotional' is an understatement.
“My daughter names all our horses and after the death of the dam that’s why she’s called Fallen Angel. To win the Group 1 Moyglare Stakes is unbelievable.”
Jockey Tudhope added “she jumped great and is a very straightforward ride. You can put her where you want in a race, she stays very well and I thought the last furlong would be her best furlong.
Quotes from Alan Magee
