Aurora Princess (far side) beats Pin Your Hopes© Photo Healy Racing
'Mistaken maiden' Aurora Princess returned to the winner's enclosure for the first time since the Galway festival when landing Clonmel's Clonmel Handicap today, scoring for trainer Jessica Harrington and jockey Scott McCullagh.
The three year old filly contested and 'won' a Galway festival 7f 2YO Maiden on July 27, but was subsequently disqualified having been mistaken for stablemate juvenile Alizarine.
Appropriately, the Galway saga concluded earlier today with the IHRB handing trainer Harrington a €2,000 fine with Aurora Princess collecting a €7,200 first prize this afternoon, at her favoured 1m1f trip.
Aurora Princess' run at Galway was under Shane Foley but Harrington's stable jockey was at Dundalk today enabling McCullagh to gain a third career win on the daughter of The Ghurka.
Afterwards McCullagh reported “she has been very good to me, that's her third win this season and headgear seems to have worked a treat on her.
I was three-wide the whole way around but I didn't feel they went quick and I was happy just to stay where I was. She travelled very sweetly and when I asked her to go about her business, she picked up and stuck it out to the line.
“It's nice to get another one, she's improving all the time and is only going to get better. It's nice to get another one for Mrs Harrington.”
