Fun Fun Fun and Patrick Mullins© Photo Healy Racing
The Willie Mullins-trained Fun Fun Fun sent off 1/2 favourite, was a very easy winner of Sligo's final race of the year, the Lough Gill INH Flat Race.
Owner/breeder/rider Patrick Mullins bided his time in mid-division on the Martaline filly. She made good headway in the back straight on the final circuit, led on the approach to the straight and cruised clear to beat Tomas O Maille and Workforadime by ten lengths and four lengths. The winning rider had time to acknowledge the cheers from the packed stand on students' day as he passed the post.
Patrick Mullins said: "That's the first official winner I've bred, I bought her five years ago in foal to the dam, so it's a long wait.
"My mother does most of the work so she deserves the credit for breeding and she named her. We flipped a coin!
"She was very good. That's what she was doing at home and I was hoping she'd do that.
"To breed them and own them is an extra thrill.
"It's a fantastic pedigree. The dam is a full-sister to Yorkhill and that's why I bought her, and the family goes back to The Listener and Dooneys Gate who was my first winner over fences, so it ties in like that.
"We might go for a Listed race, either in the spring if we give her a break, or at Navan in five weeks. We'll see how she comes out of this first."
