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Michael Graham

Michael Graham

Palm Sur looks a good one

Thu 18th Jul 2013, 17:50

Eoin DoyleEoin Doyle
© Photo Healy Racing

Unraced Palm Sur may have drifted today from 12/1 to 20/1, but the four-year-old filly didn’t know that as she stayed on stoutly to win Killarney’s bumper with Paul Power in the saddle.

Once she picked up the lead from Blueberry Hill three furlongs out she saw out the two mile one trip nicely and had enough in hand to defeat Tirauli (11/4) by half a length.

Peter Fahey’s Queen Alphabet made good ground in the run-in to take third at 11/2, beaten five and a quarter lengths in total.

“She was very good. It was my first time on her and to beat geldings first-time out is a fair achievement considering it was her first time on grass,” jockey Paul Power said. Egyptian Warrior was well backed to deliver for Aidan and Sarah O’Brien (11/4 to 7/4f), but the Galileo gelding wasn’t competitive today in seventh.

Successful handler Eoin Doyle is in Portugal.

Additional reporting by Thomas Weekes

About Michael Graham
Michael has worked in horse racing journalism for more than 15 years, having also written a weekly betting column on Gaelic football and hurling for a newspaper. He is involved in writing the My Racing Story features on this website. He spent a year in South Africa completing a Diploma in Business Administration and also studied Newspaper Journalism in Belfast. He enjoys playing 5-a-side football on a regular basis.