Dalasiri foils British gamble

The Sabrina Harty Dalasiri did his bit for the Irish ecomony when foiling a gamble on the British trained Gassin Golf in the Louis Fitzgerald Hotel Hurdle at Punchestown today, scoring a third winner of the week for jockey Barry Geraghty.

Gasson Golf, backed from 6s in the morning into 5/2 at the off, looked set for glory when seemingly full of running on Dalasiri's outer entering the straight. However the gamble produced a very slow jump at the final flight allowing Dalasiri with an advantage on the run-in before battling for a three parts of a length win.

The winner himself landed a spectacular gamble at Cork last January and following today's win, Harty stated “I knew whatever he did today he'd improve a stone from it as he was held up after his previous run at Fairyhouse with a lung infection. He's beautifully bred and is probably big enough to jump a fence in time but is a horse with a real attitude and he even tried to attack another horse in the yard!

“The plan coming here was to give him a holiday after this as he has been on the go for quite a while and we'll probably go for a few races on the Flat later in the summer.”

Quotes from Alan Magee