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Tom Weekes

Tom Weekes

Sister Bridget gains belated success

Fri 25th Feb 2022, 17:24

Sister Bridget and Gary Halpin Sister Bridget and Gary Halpin
© Photo Healy Racing

Sister Bridget gained a deserved first success today, improving on a recent nose runner-up run in winning Dundalk's Irish Stallion Farms EBF (Fillies) Maiden for trainer Adrian Murray and jockey Gary Halpin.

Homebred by owner Anthony McLoughlin, the daughter of Galileo Gold carried the silks of opening race winner Adapt To Dan s Haven'taclue Syndicate, following a late colour-change, and in the race defeated runner-up Sistine Madonna by a length and a half.

Sister Bridget also carried form-figures of '4-32' into the race, having been touched off by the minimum margin on January 14, and following today's race, trainer Murray said “we had high hopes because she had improved plenty from the last day.

“She's homebred and the man that owns her is delighted. I trained the dam who was third three times as a two-year-old but got injured at three. This is her first foal so it's brilliant.

“We'll have to go home and make a plan, as the plan was today!”

Quotes from Gary Carson

About Tom Weekes
A lifelong racing fan, Tom began writing point to point reports in 2002 and has reported for irishracing.com since 2003, when he joined Irish Racing Services - since taken over by the Press Association. Has ridden a point to point winner and won the 2018 Irish Field Naps Table.