Murtagh reaches 40 for the season as Taggalo wins claimer

The bigger-priced of two runners for the stable at 10/1, Taggalo stayed on well down the centre of the course to land the Fairyhouse Racecourse Claiming Race by a length and three quarters from the 11/4 favourite Lincoln

Stable companion of the winner Trueba (7/2) ran on into third, a further three quarters of a length away. It was a 40th winner of what has been a breakthrough year for Curragh trainer Johnny Murtagh.

The winning daughter of Tagula, who was breaking her maiden on her eleventh outing, had some decent runs in the book this year including when beaten less than a length in fourth in a Navan handicap on her penultimate start.

It was a fourth winner of the campaign for Conor Hoban who remarked: “She’s been running consistently well and the drop down to claiming company suited her. The ground was ideal.

“They went a good gallop in front and when they stopped she had something to aim at. She’s done it quite well at the line.

“It was a nice performance and she didn’t win out of turn.”

The winner was claimed for E8,000 by trainer John McConnell.

Additional reporting by Alan Magee