Trainer Andrew McNamara is to step up his recent Lincoln Handicap winner Drombeg Dawn to 1m2f when she runs next at Cork on April 23.

McNamara stated “Drombeg Dawn came out of her Lincoln win very well and we’ve decided to run step her up in trip to 1m2f in a handicap at Cork on April 23.”

The Co Limerick handler added “she has only ever run once beyond a mile on the Flat, and that was as a three year old, when she was narrowly beaten at Fairyhouse over 1m2f. It is worth stepping her back up in trip again now.”

Drombeg Dawn defeated Toraidhe by a short head in the Curragh contest to provide McNamara with his second career win in the Flat season’s traditional curtain-raiser.