Morepowertoya with winning connections© Photo Healy Racing
Morepowertoya was a poular local winner of the 'unplaced' four-year-old maiden under Darragh O'Keeffe.
The French bred, 20/1 early this morning and backed from 10s into 5/1 before the off, was held up in touch behind the leaders and was pushed along in fifth on the downhill run to the second-last. He moved into second before the last and got past Up And Out on the run-in to score by two lengths. All About Beth was a further two and a half lengths back in third.
Winning trainer Paul Power, based in nearby Butlerstown, said: "We were hopeful coming here. He was very scatty and green early on but he was starting to come forward a bit. You'd like to think off his mark that he would be competitive in a handicap but when this race for four-year-old's came up, how could you not go for it, especially when I'm only a few miles over the road.
"He got balloted out twice during the week and we actually wanted to go left-handed but hopefully the quirks are coming out of him now anyway.
"It's the first day he has finished off a race. Before when he'd come off it, he'd start jibbing around other horses. We will see what handicapper does now, maybe he'll go for a rated novice.
"The syndicate are from all over the place, from Australia to Kilmeaden, hence the name Going Global. My brother Conor is the head man in the syndicate."
Quotes from Donal Murphy
