Passionate burns her rivals off in Killarney

Passionate turned the Celtic Steps Handicap at Killarney into a procession as she absolutely bolted up.

She powered to the front in the final quarter of a mile and soon began to crank up the pressure on her rivals. The 9/2 chance was clear a furlong out and swept in by an easy six lengths. Status Green picked up a runner-up prize at 13/2 and was three-quarters of a length in front of Kodiac Prince (5/1).

Andy Slattery said: "She had her problems when she was in (Fozzy) Stack's, but Andrew (Slattery, jockey) liked her and recently she had been working well - although I didn't want to win six lengths!

"She should have won in Gowran last Wednesday as she was tailed off coming down the hill, but ran on (in second) and I couldn't believe how she was beaten.

"She is also in at Leopardstown on Friday, but we'll have to see how she is."

Additional reporting by Tom Weekes