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Barry in Favour at Sligo
After getting a 'result' in the first bumper on the card in the shape of Mighty Whitey another Northern runner, Grace N' Favour (a half-sister to Charlie Yardbird) sent most bookmakers home happy by landing the concluding countysligoraces.com Mares Flat Race.
The 10/1 chance (touched 11s) soon led and she found enough in the straight under John Barry (his first winner on the track) to beat Kings Equity by three lengths.
Brian Hamilton trains the daughter of Exit To Nowhere for the Grace N Favour Syndicate and he said: "Nina Carberry rode her the last day and tried to hold her up. She fought and fought that day though and Nina told us to let her roll along next time.
"She got a wee bit banged up that day (Downpatrick last September) and that's why she hasn't run since. She jumps very well, she was placed in a point-to-point and she'll go hurdling soon.
"John rode a point-to-point winner for us lately. He is a very good rider, he uses his head and we said we'd use his 7Ib claim on this mare."
Barry (20) is from Conna, County Cork, he has ridden 12 point-to-point winners and he works with Liam Burke.
Favourite Shadow Eile was beaten from before the turn-in and ended up finishing sixth.