CURRAGH REVIEW
English raider Mail The Desert landed the featured Group 1 Moyglare Stud Stakes by a diminishing head at The Curragh this afternoon.
Mick Channon's filly made all under Steve Drowne to repel the strong late challenge of the Jim Bolger trained Luminata (10/1 - 6/1).
Winning rider Drowne said afterwards: 'That was my first winner in Ireland. The plan was to get a lead early on but I decided to go on as there was no pace and I knew my filly would get the trip.'
Prior to the featured race favourite backers had by far the best of the exchanges. Spectacular (9/4f) and Snippets(6/4f) provided Jim Bolger with some compensation for the narrow defeat of Luminata, while Walayef (11/10f) fulfilled the promise of her maiden success over the course when running out an easy winner of the Listed Round Tower Stakes.
Kevin Prendergast said of Walayef: 'She came to us from Dubai and is the best 2 year old I have at this trip. There is a possibility that she may now be supplemented for the Cheveley Park Stud Stakes at Newmarket.'
Sir Mark Prescott's Danehurst justified favouritism when getting up to beat fellow raider Lady Dominatrix by a head in The Big Shuffle Flying Five Group 2 race.
John Oxx and Johnny Murtagh continued their rich vein of form when Masani won the ladbrokes.com Irish Cambridgeshire by a head from the lightly weighted Moratorium.
