Gold Factory grinds it out well for McDonogh

Gold Factory was a 10/1 winner of the Sean Barrett Bloodstock Insurance Maiden in the hands of Declan McDonogh.

Always prominent on the far rail, she kept on gamely inside the final furlong to just hold the promising newcomer Make A Promise by a head.

The winner’s stable companion King Of Stars was third, a place ahead of the 10/3 favourite Taggalo

The winner, a grey daughter of The Factor with a pronounced ‘dishy’ action behind when she’s galloping, was rated 74 after six previous starts, the best of which was when runner-up in a Dundalk nursery last November.

Brendan Powell, assistant to winning trainer Joseph O’Brien, remarked: "It's nice to get her head in front.

“On her first run at Leopardstown this year she just never went a yard, I don't know why. She has a very unusual action behind, maybe it had something to do with that.

“She's run well at Dundalk before and Declan said she loved that straight track. He said she's very tough and she has a great attitude to her.

“It's nice to win with her as she has a lovely pedigree.”

Additional reporting by Gary Carson