Perfect Poise (left)© Photo Healy Racing
Easy-to-back Perfect Poise landed the one-mile handicap to complete a double for Ger Lyons and Colin Keane.
Put in 5/2 favourite overnight, she went off a 15/2 chance and, after breaking very smartly, raced in second place. Ridden to lead over a furlong out, the daughter of Kodiac stayed on well to beat Church Mountain by a length and three quarters.
Owned by Anamoine Limited, it was a first success for Perfect Poise who had been touched off on her previous outing at Navan.
Lyons and Keane had combined to win the opener with impressive debutante Rising Sign
Lyons remarked: “We thought she would have won her maiden no problem and the first bit of light at the end of the tunnel was Navan where we got chinned.
“I thought that was a nice workmanlike performance. She’s hard on herself and you can see a bit of blood in her mouth. She carries her head low going down to the start and kicks herself in the jaw.
“Hopefully there is another day of two in her as that is the first winner we’ve had for Mrs Patino for about a year. I’m delighted as she’s a very loyal owner.
“She’s a fine big filly and you would like to think there is another year’s racing in her doing that. She likes a bit of juice in the ground.”
Quotes from Alan Magee
