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Lieutenant First at Punchestown

Published at Oct 13, 2010, 15:28

First Lieutenant justified odds of 1/2 in the Punchestown Event Centre Maiden Hurdle but not before giving his backers a scare. White Star Line loomed up travelling best into the straight and still had a chance when getting the last a bit wrong. From there First Lieutenant stayed on well under Andrew McNamara to score by two and a half lengths from the aforementioned promising runner-up with a fifteen length gap back to the third placed Steel Park

Not surprisingly given the way he jumps and the fact that he has already taken a point-to-point, Mouse Morris views the Gigginstown House Stud owned son of Presenting as a prospective chaser.

He said: "Next season he'll be a chaser but at the minute he is still a big baby. Two and a half or even three miles is what he wants and that ground there was probably fast enough for him.

"He couldn't do much more than he did."

Punchestown Event Centre M'dn H'dle €10,500.00 2m 4f

1st

First Lieutenant (IRE)

1/2Fav

Tote €1.60 €1.10

2nd

2.5L

White Star Line (IRE)

4/1

€1.50

3rd

15L

Steel Park (IRE)

7/1

€1.50

4th

3.5L

Laffan Island (IRE)

50/1

Ireland Jockeys Trainers Andrew McNamara Mouse Morris

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