Flemenstorm (far side)© Photo Healy Racing
Jockey Katie O'Farrell completed a notable double at Fairyhouse today when steering the Eddie Cawley trained Flemenstorm to win the Ratoath Pharmacy Ladies National Handicap Chase, half an hour after winning a E100,000 Grade A Hurdle.
O'Farrell, who rides out for both Willie Mullins and Gordon Elliott and earlier partnered Mullins' Low Sun to a big race win, steered ten year old Flemenstorm to a three lengths win over Sunsetstorise and afterwards Cawley stated “I was a bit afraid of the ground drying out and becoming too tacky for him.
“He loves it sloppy and I was hoping that they'd have raced on the original Tuesday no matter how bad the ground was because he loves the muck.
“He did that well and better than I thought he would. I'd say his season could be over with this wind and the time of year the ground will be gone.
“We might put him away and you never know he might pick up one next year.
“I thought she had come to early and I said coming off the corner 'just sit, sit'. He kept jumping himself into it and there was nothing she could do.”
Quotes from Gary Carson
