Review wexford 20th May

Ger Lyons dominated the show at Wexford with a superb treble thanks to the victories of Music Pearl Solent Ridge and Sixty Eight Guns

Music Pearl (5-2) set the ball rolling in the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Fillies Maiden, but it was a close call as she snatched the prize in the shadow of the post.

The odds-on Hadrian's Waltz tried to make all, but Johnny Murtagh produced Music Pearl on the outside at the furlong pole and the three-year-old, blinkered for the first time, came out on top by a head.

Murtagh was at the top of his game in the Black Point Handicap, too, riding a patient race before pouncing to score on Sixty Eight Guns to complete the stable treble.< Dearest led late on, but the top-weight (4-1) was getting into top gear and grabbed the prize in the last few strides by a neck, with big gamble Whatever It Takes only third.

The other victory came in the Campile Apprentice Handicap. Snap Alam led a furlong out, but Danny Benson had the move covered on Solent Ridge and the 8-1 shot powered down the outside to win by a length and a quarter.

David Wachman's Quaintly (5-1) landed an all-the-way success in the Barrow Race, wearing cheekpieces for the first time as she took the step up to an extended mile and three furlongs in her stride.

Wayne Lordan sent her to the front from the start and she was tracked by the odds-on Alayir who put in a sustained challenge up the straight but was repelled by two lengths.

The Paul Magnier-trained Golan Go (4-1) came from off the pace under Gary Carroll to grab Beliar inside the final furlong and forge clear by two lengths in the first division of the Owenduff Handicap.

Favourite Sounds Of Thunder looked to have the second division in the bag, but Billy Lee ran him down close home on Eoin Doyle's Grand Cru (10-1) to score by a head.