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This Bird is fast
Getabird and Patrick Mullins
© Photo Healy Racing
Coolmore National Hunt sire Getaway supplied the first two home as Getabird beat Imperial Way in the concluding Fairyhouse Steel Supporting Meath GAA (Pro/Am) INH Flat Race.
Bringing up a double for Willie Mullins, after the earlier success of Airlie Beach the former Colin Bowe-trained point-to-point winner impressively strode clear from over a furlong out for a twelve length win.
Patrick Mullins' mount joined the Closutton team, to run for owner Susannah Ricci, for 200,000 Euros at the Goffs Sale in Punchestown last April.
Well-backed here at 8/11, the four-year-old's success prompted Willie Mullins to say: "He's by Getaway, a son of Monsun, and I think he's going to make a real nice sire.
"He showed me a little bit at home. He never showed me that but he showed me a little bit.
"We said we'd take a chance and run him here but I thought this was a very hot bumper. Two or three trainers had touted their horses and I know one or two had refused good money for them.
"Patrick thought he was going flat out but when he pulled him out for a bit of daylight he had to pull him back again as he had so much in the tank. When he let him go he just flew.
"He's a real nice horse and obviously a lot better than I had put him down as."
One to follow? Getabird wins the finale for @WillieMullinsNH and Rich Ricci: https://t.co/w8OV3rG8g2
— At The Races (@AtTheRaces) December 4, 2016
(GC & EM)