Kingston Girl wins Fairyhouse opener for Comer

The Luke Comer senior trained Kingston Girl landed the opening Easter Festival Tickets (Mares) Maiden Hurdle at Fairyhouse today, scoring under jockey Ricky Doyle.

The daughter of Yeats ended a long losing spell for multi-millionaire trainer Comer stretching back to Confidence's win at Dundalk in December of 2011, when scoring by half a length in a Killarney bumper in August, and today scored by that same margin when beating 4/7 favourite Caravation

Comer, whose son and namesake also holds a trainers' license, was today represented by his assistant trainer Jim Gorman who said “she ran very well in a maiden at Navan, which was a good maiden and the winner came out and won in Limerick afterwards.

“I don't know whether she was 100 percent on the day at Christmas. She was a little bit disappointing but that was a grade 3, we were back to maiden company here and she did it well. She jumped much better today than she did in Leopardstown.

“The runner-up has really really good form but she's tough and once she gets into a battle she loves it. It played into our hands really.

“The mares' graded race here in a couple of weeks is a possibility. We'll have to see what the bigger lads bring out!”

Quotes by Gary Carson