Vinnys comes good despite ground worries

Seeyouinvinnys lunged late to grab the spoils in the opening Roadstud Installation Maiden Hurdle at Downpatrick. Monition attempted to make all in the two-mile-five contest and looked to have his rivals on the stretch jumping the last.

Sean Flanagan got a good tune from Seeyouinvinnys up the hill, however, and he clawed back the front-runner close home to secure a half length success.

The Noel Meade-trained gelding was tailed off on his last visit to the track in late March but was the subject of some support today, backed from 10/1 into 15/2.

Meade said: "I was hoping to get soft ground for him somewhere, I always thought he wanted winter ground and that he would be okay when he got winter ground.

"I was within an ace of taking him out but then thought sure we'll run him and leave it. I didn't give the owners any great encouragement or any encouragement with the ground, I just thought it wouldn't be soft enough.

"He's looking better than he has been all year. He just seems to have turned a corner but we'll leave him out anyway because he is a soft-ground horse and we'll leave him until next season.

"He stays, stays, stays and just wants three miles. I'd say he will jump fences as well.

"Sean said he was just a different horse today."

(Quotes by Michael Graham)