I'm Not Alone and Charlie O'Dwyer© Photo Healy Racing
The Adare Manor Opportunity Handicap Chase provided a great success for the O’Dwyer family as I’m Not Alone, trained by Conor O’Dwyer for his wife Audrey and ridden by their son Charlie, scored in fine style at Tipperary.
The Yeats mare was recording her third win over fences in the past ten months and, after striking the front three out, kept on well in the straight to beat Malina Girl by two-and-three-quarter-lengths. Secret Cargo was a further ten lengths back in third, while the heavily watered yielding ground proved too testing for some with just five of the 14 runners completing the 2m7f event.
Charlie O’Dwyer said, “She was in good form coming here today and I’d plenty of confidence in her. Riding a winner in mam’s colours makes it all the better.
“We pinged the third last and I didn’t want to disappoint here. I knew she would stay well.
“When they turned the ground to yielding today it was all the better for, and when she’s on her day then she’s as honest as the day is long.”
