Supreme performance from Bailerina

The Willie Mullins trained Supreme Bailerina made a successful debut in the second division of the Greenmount Conference Centre Mares Flat Race, providing her rider David Thomas with his second career success.

Having opened at 6/1 on-course, the five-year-old daughter of Norse Dancer, who is owned by the Supreme Horse Racing Club, drifted out to 9/1 and she was waited with towards the rear for much of the contest.

She made headway to chase the leaders entering the straight and she was ridden to lead from over a furlong out, staying on well to score easily by seven and a half lengths. Marley Exit finished back in second under Barry O’Neill for Colin Bowe at 12/1 while Dantes Lot was two and a half lengths back in third at 25/1 under Paul Power for Kieran Purcell.

Mullins also saddled Bedrock Lady but she finished a disappointing tenth, having went off the well-supported 11/8 favourite (5/2 this morning and opened at 15/8 on-course).

Twenty-three year-old David Thomas, from Thomastown in Co Kilkenny recorded his first winner at Gowran back in November of 2008 when Immediate Response won a bumper.

He did win the Charity Race earlier this year at the Punchestown Festival but this was his second official winner.

He said afterwards: “I got my licence four years ago but I gave it up for two years. Patrick (Mullins) suggested that I should get it back.

"She is a good little horse and she stayed calm when she needed too."

Additional reporting by Thomas Weekes