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Lavish springs 20/1 surprise on debut

 Pretty Lavish and Wayne Lordan lead them home Pretty Lavish and Wayne Lordan lead them home
© Photo Healy Racing

20/1 shot Pretty Lavish got a nice run up the rail to land the spoils on her debut at Gowran Park this afternoon.

The Natalia Lupini-trained filly was held up early in the median sires series fillies maiden and Wayne Lordan plotted a course down the inner in the closing stages.

She had to wait for a run, having been hampered early in the straight, but got to the front inside the final furlong and asserted late on to record a length-and-a-quarter win over I Can Imagine

The winner had only cost owner Ben Dalton €6,000 as a yearling at last year's Orby Sale Book 2.

Lordan said:- “It’s a filly they like, and she has a lovely pedigree.

“She’s quite tall and they thought she might be a bit weak on that ground. I think she’s going to be a grand filly next year.

“My instructions were to let her find her feet, ride her to be finishing and she’ll come home well. We went a good gallop, and I got a good run down the inside. The rail helped her, and she won well at the line.

“She feels like she is going to stay well.”

(Quotes by Alan Magee)

1st
20/1
Tote €23.70 €4.90
2nd
1.25L
7/2
€1.90
3rd
nose
10/3
€1.10
4th
0.5L
3/1Fav