A determined Seamie Heffernan drives home Cailin Coillteach (nearside) at Dundalk© Photo Healy Racing
Many of us may think of a baby's soother when the word pacifier is used but Willie McCreery used the term in relation to the blinkers and tongue-strap he employed to race winning effect on Cailin Coillteach in division one of the Crowne Plaza Hotel Race & Stay Handicap at Dundalk.
The successful daughter of Woodman wore 'blinds' and a tongue-tie before but never together.
Those that backed Dixiedoodledandy from 14/1 this morning into 11/2 would have been forgiven for thinking, in the words of one well-known commentator, that she was "home for all money" inside the last.
However she was 'cut-down' near the line by Cailin Coillteach, who came home strongly, getting up to score by three parts of a length. Dixiedoodledandy dead-heated with Like Magic for second.
McCreery explained: "I told him (winning jockey Seamie Heffernan) to be up there but it's worked out anyway.
"I put the pacifiers on her as she's been throwing her head up.
"Seamie said she forced her way out and that she quickened up well.
"She has that in her but it's hard to get it out of her.
"I'd love to run her on tracks where she doesn't know where she is and she's only running here for the ground.
"She's won over six and seven furlongs here and she'll probably go to the sales in February." (MG & EM)
