Bongiorno stays on well in Roscommon© Photo Healy Racing
Well-backed Bongiorno kept on strongly to land a punt in the extended mile and a quarter fillies' maiden at Roscommon.
She went off at 13/2 having opened at 10/1 and had odds-on-favourite Ancestral in trouble when she challenged and headed her over two furlongs from home.
She came under the whip and asserted by the final furlong as Ancestral could find no more.
Bongiorno came in by three and a half lengths from Baby Pink (6/1) who got up for second by half a length from Ancestral (10/11f).
Willie McCreery said: "The experience helped and she had a nice draw and we said we had to use it. We were caught out here the last day when we travelled into the straight and we thought she'd quicken but they sprinted away from her and she came back at them again.
"We were adamant to make sure it didn't turn into a sprint and to go a good even tempo the whole way; I thought Billy gave her a lovely ride.
"She is well bred and the breeders would be very much black-type hunters so we'll hunt for a bit of black type wherever we have to go. She looked a dour, mile and a half filly today and we'll look at all the options now."
Additional reporting by Thomas Weekes
