The Real Article lands gamble on debut

His full-brother, Rare Commodity did the business at Clonmel yesterday and The Real Article proved well-named by landing the corkracecourse.ie (Pro/Am) Flat Race by a comprehensive five and a half lengths.

Backed from 14/1 this morning into 4/1, the James 'Corky' Carroll-ridden Edward O'Grady-trained son of Definite Article led under three furlongs out and he was clear a furlong and a half out as he went on to outpoint Kavanagh

O'Grady commented of the five-year-old, bred by himself and sporting the colours of Patricia Wallace: "This fellow has had one wind operation whilst Rare Commodity has had four. He might go hurdling now as I'm not a great winners bumper man."