Miranda's Girl is a credit to her connections and the versatile six-year-old showed that she is as at home on the all-weather in Dundalk as she is in the Roscommon mud (won two there this summer). Rory Cleary got his father Tom's charge home in a blanket finish to the Irish Stallion Farms European Breeders Fund Fillies Race.
Eight years after the tragic loss of Sean (his commemoration race will take place at Galway tomorrow) here Rory forced Miranda's Girl (16s this morning out to 33s) up by a neck from the favourite Hurricane Havoc There was another length and a half to Katherine Lee (33s this morning into 9s) in third and then two heads, a nose and three parts of a length to the next four home.
Tom Cleary said afterwards: "If she'd run bad tonight we would have given her some time off.
"She thrives on racing though and the worst thing you can do is to give her time off.
"She's in and out of the paddock every day and she does very little work at home.
"She was well and we said we'd run. Hopefully the handicapper isn't too hard on her now as we'd like to win another with her before she goes in foal next year."
