Lakemilan and Donie McInerney© Photo Healy Racing
After his heavy tumble from favourite Falak in the first, it didn't get any easier for Keith Donoghue in race five at Limerick as Moonlight Escape (6/4 market-leader) got rid of him at the fifth last. This Irish Stallion Farms EBF Mares Beginners Chase eventually went to 2/1 second favourite Lakemilan
Up on the gallop Zipporah made a bold bid but she couldn't match the Terence O'Brien-trained and Donie McInerney-ridden Lakemilan over the closing couple of fences. Fourteen lengths split them at the line.
"She's done that well and I suppose when the favourite fell it was a help. She will mix it over the summer and it would be great to get a bit of black type with her," said O'Brien.
"She's a light-framed mare and will go on good ground too. I'd say it's not too bad there today and they are finishing fairly well. I think she can improve again and she is easy enough to train as you don't have to do a lot with her."
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