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Gary Carson

Gary Carson

Fancy looks smart on racecourse bow

Sat 7th Jan 2023, 16:18

Fancy Girl and Patrick Mullins Fancy Girl and Patrick Mullins
© Photo Healy Racing

Fancy Girl produced a fine front-running performance to make a winning start under rules for Willie Mullins in the bumper at Cork.

The Champs Elysees mare had cost £200,000 after winning her point-to-point for Cormac Doyle at Ballyragget in the spring and now carries the Hurricane Fly colours of the Creighton Family.

Patrick Mullins was always to the fore on the 8/11 favourite and she was joined before the straight by Ascending Lark

Fancy Girl quickened up well when asked over a furlong from home and went on to post a two-and-a-quarter length win over that rival.

The winning rider said:- "She is a big beautiful mare who loved that soft ground. She has a real long stride on her, picked up well and you'd like to think she is one for those Listed bumpers in the spring.

“I'd imagine we'll look to the mares' bumper at the Dublin Racing Festival as that meeting can be on soft side sometimes.

"I rode a winner in these colours a long time ago on a horse called Hammersmith at Downpatrick (in 2009) which was my only previous ride for the Creightons."

It was a double on the card for Willie Mullins following the earlier victory of Walk In The Brise

(Quotes by Tom Weekes)

About Gary Carson
Gary started out as a trainee/assistant journalist with the Sporting Life newspaper and has worked in the racing industry for over 25 years. He has been with the Press Association since 2013 and won the Irish Field Nap Table in 2016. He enjoys working with horses and trained his own horse, Mamaslittlestar, to win a point-to-point in 2019.