Sea Eagle and Shane Foley© Photo Healy Racing
Trainer Ger O'Leary and jockey Shane Foley combined for Roscommon doubles today as Sea Eagle (5/1) revelled in testing conditions to complete a course double of his own, in the Conor Cassidy Car Sales Handicap.
Previously successful at the Connaught course in May, the Time Test-sired grey gelding today improved from mid-field to eventually win pulling-up and by 4.75 lengths from Lord Raven
O'Leary's Come On The Lads was claimed having won today's opening race, and following Sea Eagle's rout, the trainer quipped “hopefully the handicapper was out having coffee or something!
“I'm very thankful for the luck though and we've some members of the (Purosangue) syndicate here tonight to see him.”
He added “Shane said he did it very nicely; he said beforehand that he was going to try and have him handy enough.
“We have him in the (Irish) Cambridgeshire and he might just get into the tail end of it, if the ground came up soft.”
Quotes from Gary Carson
