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- Four across the cards for Joseph as Slige Dala wins bumper
Mark Nunan
Four across the cards for Joseph as Slige Dala wins bumper
Slige Dala and Tom Hamilton (left) win from Champagne Rhythm
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The BoyleSports This Is Betting (Pro/Am) INH Flat Race saw 1/9 favourite Slige Dala win to give Joseph O’Brien his fourth winner of the afternoon across the two Irish meetings.
Group 2 winner Pretty Gorgeous and Mighty Blue scored for the Piltown handler at the Curragh, and the Sholokhov gelding gave O’Brien a quick Killarney double as well after Mortal had landed the feature handicap chase.
Slige Dala, a winner on his third start at the Galway Festival last month, made all but had to work for victory as newcomer Champagne Rhythm (20/1) threw down a challenge in the straight. The winner ultimately stayed on well to score by three and a quarter lengths.
Winning rider Tom Hamilton said: "He is a lovely horse and is quite straightforward but I had to make my own running and he had a little look in front and got lonely.
"He'll be a lovely horse in time, whatever he does now is a bonus and will make a lovely chaser."
Additional reporting by Thomas Weekes