Slatterys repeat front-running tactics for 233/1 double

Killenaule trainer Andy Slattery successfully combined with his son and namesake for a quickfire 233/1 double as Solene Lilyette recorded a shock win in the Follow Limerick Racecourse on Facebook Maiden.

The Pivotal filly was friendless in the market and sent off at 25/1 on his first start for connections having been bought out of Dermot Weld’s yard for €12,000 earlier this year.

Slattery junior again adopted the front-running tactics that were so successful on Dedillon (8/1) in the previous mile handicap, and his mount kept on well under pressure inside the final furlong. Mudawy made relentless headway in the straight to get within half a length at the line, while fellow 3/1 joint favourite Fictitious Lady could find no extra another three quarters of a length away in third.

Slattery senior said, "I thought this was my best chance today but then the ground dried out - she wants a dig in the ground being by Pivotal.

"When Andrew was at Weld's he liked her so we bought her for 12,000 at a mares' sale. She is a maiden winner now by Pivotal so has a bit of value. She has the real good Moyglare pedigree in the second dam, all the good fillies are there.

"The way she was working at home we thought she was a Premier Handicap filly on soft ground and he said she blew up there, so she should improve."

(TW & AM)