Ebeyina and Pat Smullen© Photo Healy Racing
Ebeyina sluiced through the heavy ground for a whopping 23-length win to give Dermot Weld a treble and Pat Smullen a double in Cork.
The Oasis Dream filly, in the Aga Khan colours, was making her racecourse bow in this three-year-old fillies' maiden over a mile and a quarter.
She was fully expected to do her job as the money came this morning – 15/8 to 6/4 and 11/8 to 9/10 at the track.
She raced track-width apart from Upper Silesian who used the far rail as her guide. With a quarter of a mile to go, Ebeyina grabbed the lead and quickly put the race to bed as she stayed on stoutly for a comprehensive success.
Dermot Weld’s son Kris Weld said: “That’ll definitely shorten the trip home! She has been backward, but has done all we have asked of her. She’s not a filly we’ll rush.
“She’ll have no problem going on better ground. Who knows what type of race it was? She’ll definitely have to go on the blacktype trail now.”
Upper Silesian was the favourite’s main market rival at 7/4. She pleased forecast punters by finishing second.
Additional reporting by Thomas Weekes
