The Luke Comer senior trained Kingston Girl landed the opening Easter Festival Tickets (Mares) Maiden Hurdle at Fairyhouse today, scoring under jockey Ricky Doyle.

The daughter of Yeats ended a long losing spell for multi-millionaire trainer Comer stretching back to Confidence's win at Dundalk in December of 2011, when scoring by half a length in a Killarney bumper in August, and today scored by that same margin when beating 4/7 favourite Caravation

Comer, whose son and namesake also holds a trainers' license, was today represented by his assistant trainer Jim Gorman who said “she ran very well in a maiden at Navan, which was a good maiden and the winner came out and won in Limerick afterwards.

“I don't know whether she was 100 percent on the day at Christmas. She was a little bit disappointing but that was a grade 3, we were back to maiden company here and she did it well. She jumped much better today than she did in Leopardstown.

“The runner-up has really really good form but she's tough and once she gets into a battle she loves it. It played into our hands really.

“The mares' graded race here in a couple of weeks is a possibility. We'll have to see what the bigger lads bring out!”

Quotes by Gary Carson