Henry de Bromhead© Photo Healy Racing
Second reserve Bendanella got a run in the two and a quarter mile maiden hurdle in Wexford and duly made no mistake as he scored for Henry de Bromhead.
Andrew Lynch was on board and always had the five-year-old son of Heron Island prominent. He jumped well throughout and coming to the last had one rival left to burn off – Brian Hamilton’s Der Kaiser (14/1).
Mikey Fogarty and Der Kaiser couldn’t quite reel in the winner after the last as Bendanella found plenty and scored by three parts of a length. Der Kaiser beat Inishturk Lad (4/1 from 7s this morning) the same distance into third.
"I was hopeful he would run well. He had good bumper form, but he was a bit disappointing at Tramore where I thought he might win. He schooled really well so I said we'd just go jumping,” Henry de Bromhead said.
“He won his point-to-point at Ballinaboola after Christmas where he beat a horse of ours Tisamystery. Andrew said his jumping was electric. Whatever he does over hurdles he will be much better over fences. I might drop him back to two miles as I thought he was just fizzling out a bit there. He is an exciting horse."
The 5/1 winner paid almost 10.5/1 on the Tote. Some Article went off the 15/8 favourite, but the Goffs Land Rover Bumper winner of 2012 was hard at work coming to the second last and had to settle for fourth, beaten eight lengths.
Additional reporting by Donal Murphy
