Vischio exploits hurdles mark under confident Danny Mullins

Vischio exploited a lenient mark over flights to run out a decisive winner of the Smart Love Property Handicap Hurdle at Tramore.

A dual winner on the flat earlier this year, the Dick Donohue trained mare ran better than her final placing suggested, when reverting to hurdles at Galway last month.

Well supported on this occasion, the five-year-old was always prominent under Danny Mullins before delivering her challenge to long-time leader Play The Game at what was effectively the final flight(last hurdle omitted).

Quickening up smartly to surge ahead, the daughter of Holy Roman Emperor went right away to score with plenty in hand.

Dick Donohue said; "She ran well in Galway and has been running well all summer really. I thought she always had a chance of winning a hurdle race off of her mark by the way she was running on the Flat. She did it well and we are happy out now, the syndicate are getting great fun out of her. It's a local syndicate with family members and friends involved, it's great to win down here at the Festival.

"In Galway she kind of got caught behind in a slowly run race. It's very hard to make ground there unless you are out wide. She ran on well in the end and we were happy with the way she ran despite the way things went. The further the race went the better she was today.

"She will probably get a bit of a penalty now. Listowel is a possibility now for some of those nice handicap hurdles but she could even go back on the Flat. She has done her job and doesn't need to win too many more anyway."

Additional reporting by Donal Murphy