First winner for late stallion Karpino

Qatar Racing's Deceit caused a 28/1 upset to win the Limerick Racecourse Handicap at that venue today, providing her late sire Karpino with a first success at stud.

Deceit battled well in the closing stages under jockey Shane Kelly, to hold White Strand by three parts of a length, in a race where two lengths covered the first seven finishers.

Winning trainer Johnny Murtagh wasn't present and Kelly said “she had a good run the first day but has taken a bit of racing as she is a bit of a baby and the step up in trip, with a tongue-tie on, helped. Hopefully she can go on from that and I think she will progress.

“She needed the few runs she had and was dropping into handicaps today. It was good to get that one today.”

Stallion Karpino won the 2015 German 2,000 Guineas (titled the Group 2 Mehl-Mulhens-Rennen) but died in 2018 having covered mostly jumps mares in his first few months at Fermoy's Glenview Stud. Deceit has been his only runner todate.