Listed success for Pirate Jenny The Listed Yeomanstown Stud Irish EBF Stakes was another race on the straight track to be dominated by those drawn low as Pirate Jenny from trap one beat Sablonne who was berthed in two. Gary Carroll's mount, third in the betting at 13/2, was always prominent on the rail and kept on well in the final furlong to score by three quarters of a length. Carroll was doubling up after Gordon Bennett half an hour earlier. The winner's stablemate Sacred Bridge, sent off 5/4 favourite, travelled well until a furlong and a half out but could find no more and finished a further head back in third. It was a third win in six starts for the daughter of Exceed And Excel who had been touched off by another stable companion, Geocentric, in a similar contest at Cork last month. Winning trainer Ger Lyons, also completing a double after Apricot Twist in the opener, said: “Gary said she was very tough. The last day was too soon after the Cork race. She is a filly that I need to give some time between her races. “All my fillies it’s about black type and making them worth the value that we pay for them. That’s another job done. “I was disappointed with Sacred. What I’ve seen at home with the blinkers she was just going to pick them up and go but Colin’s reaction was that she didn’t face the blinkers. “She is not ungenuine but I just felt she was going through the motions and I thought the blinkers would help.” Quotes from Alan Magee
