Creeping Ivy and Oisin Orr out-point Mademoiselle Penny and Denis Linehan© Photo Healy Racing
A course and distance scorer from sixteen days back, Creeping Ivy (5/4 favourite) followed up in the Crowne Plaza Leading Jockey & Trainer Championship Apprentice Handicap at Dundalk.
Oisin Orr was again in the plate on the Mustameet filly, and he gave her a patient steer from the back.
Orr asked for more from the four-year-old she made good headway into second a furlong out.
The Leopardstown Members Racing Club-owned Creeping Ivy led in the final hundred yards, and she comfortably defeated Mademoiselle Penny by half a length.
Tony Martin trains Creeping Ivy.
The Stewards fined Rossa Ryan €200 in accordance with Rule 196(v) for failing to present himself to be weighed out within the allocated time.
The Stewards interviewed K.J. Leonard, rider of Black Label (GB), regarding his late arrival into the parade ring for this race.
Evidence was heard from the rider concerned, in the presence of Andrew Oliver, trainer, who accompanied the rider in the Stewards room. Having considered the evidence, the Stewards advised the rider concerning his future responsibilities in this regard.
(AM & EM)
