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Alan Magee
Samrogue swoops late to take sprint handicap
Samrogue (No.7) battles it out with No Speed Limit
© Photo Healy Racing
Ross O’Sullivan has enjoyed a highly successful 2021 with his dual-purpose string and Samrogue kept the ball rolling for the Kill trainer when getting up close home to land the five-furlong View Restaurant At Dundalk Stadium Handicap. No Speed Limit made a bold bid from the front to add to his win here last Friday and still held a lead of about three lengths over a furlong out.
However, Samrogue really got going inside the final furlong and just snatched victory under Conor Hoban in the final strides.
The 7/2 chance had a neck to spare at the line, with Theriverrunsdeep a further two and a half lengths adrift in third.
O’Sullivan, who has saddled over 20 winners under both codes this year, said: “She's a homebred filly and it's a first winner in Yvonne(Lavin)'s colours. She’s a Roscommon woman and from a well-known racing family.
“She took a while to relax and learn what it was all about. She was very free on her first couple of runs and then she learned to relax and be a racehorse. Every run she has gotten better and better.
“We had a bit of a debate whether five or six would suit her and even though she won over five today, I think she'll be a filly that gets six.
“Hopefully there is plenty of improvement in her, the fact that she's only three.”
The winner is entered again over six furlongs at Dundalk next Wednesday.