Zabriskie (right) beats Spanish Point© Photo Healy Racing
The outsider of the three Ballydoyle horses proved victorious in the colts and geldings maiden at Tipperary. Saracen Knight was sent off 4/5 favourite for the seven-furlong contest but came under pressure before the straight. Zabriskie a 9/1 shot under Wayne Lordan, made the running and was always just doing enough to hold his other stable-mate Spanish Point in the closing stages.
Lordan only had to give the son of Frankel a couple of slaps down the shoulder inside the final furlong to record a neck success over Spanish Point, who is also by the same sire.
Saracen Knight stayed on into third, three-and-three-quarter lengths back, to complete a clean sweep for the yard.
The winner was reversing form with the runner-up from their debut runs at the Curragh when the pair had been sixth and tenth behind Gobi Desert.
Lordan said of the winner:- "He is a very tough and genuine lad and came forward a good bit from the first day.
"He enjoyed being in front and when Donnacha joined me it helped me and he went to the line well and he stays well.
“With that ground you just have to keep going all the way to the line because it is pretty deep ground. He handled it away and stepped forward from his first run."
(Quotes by Thomas Weekes)
