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Donal Murphy

Donal Murphy

33/1 shocker as Coilog beats Exact

Mon 15th Oct 2012, 15:53

Runners break from the stalls for the Oran Maiden with winner Coilogshakeysirgin breaking from stall No 5Runners break from the stalls for the Oran Maiden with winner Coilogshakeysirgin breaking from stall No 5
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Coilogshakeysirgin under Ben Curtis stunned favourite backers at Roscommon as the 33/1 shot beat the 8/11 favourite Exact by a length in the Oran Maiden.

The Sabrina Harty trained 5yo son of Expelled has two bumper runs to his name finishing well beaten at both Galway and Tramore.

Having his first start under flat rules this afternoon he stayed on best up the straight to challenge both Exact and stablemate On A Jetplane

He hit the front with 100 yards left to race and kept on from there to score by a length from Exact and Joseph O’Brien in second while On A Jetplane was a neck back in third at 9/1 under Gary Carroll.

Winning trainer Sabrina Harty said afterwards: "He is a horse who has loads of speed but Jamie Codd was riding him in bumpers and said that he just wasn’t staying.

"There are so few 4yo and upwards maidens that we decided to run three in this today.

"He is owned and bred by Chris Byrne and Chris broke a number of bones (broke his collar bone & cracked his ankle) when he fell from him while doing a piece of work at home one day.

"He is very quirky at home and killed a calf! We all call him the calf killer now. He is massive and he is probably still growing. He was a July foal."

(On-course reporting by Alan Magee)

1st
33/1
Tote €78.80 €17.10
2nd
1L
8/11Fav
€1.02
3rd
0.5L
9/1
€3.00
4th
1.5L
13/2
About Donal Murphy
Donal graduated from Maynooth University in 2010 with a BBS in Equine Business and since attained a diploma in Sports Journalism from Dublin Business School. He holds a variety of roles in the horse racing industry, reporting for the Press Association and p2p.ie, while also working for SIS and the Tote. From Wexford, he is a keen runner and has completed over 100 parkruns at various locations around the country.