Chemical Energy and Jamie Codd © Photo Healy Racing
The 8/11 favourite Chemical Energy ran out a ten length winner of the concluding Connolly’s Red Mills 4-y-o INH Flat Race.
The Well Chosen gelding, a 38,000 Euros purchase at the Derby Sale last year and a half-brother to two winners including the useful Whatsforuwontgobyu, travelled well and hit the front over two furlongs out.
He was pushed out to beat the staying-on Champagnesocialist (20/1) with Salvador Ziggy (16/1) another half a length back in third place.
The winner had missed engagements at Navan and Listowel as connections waited for suitable ground for his debut.
Winning trainer Gordon Elliott, completing a double after Presenting Dylan rsquo;s win in the third race, said: “He’s a nice horse and we were hoping he’d do that on his work but he will improve a lot from here.
"He’s owned by a syndicate (Crocodile Pockets Syndicate) who have half a dozen horses with me with a view to selling them on.”
Winning rider Jamie Codd remarked: “I kept things simple and that was expected as his work had been excellent.
“He’s probably one of the better youngsters in Gordon’s.”
Codd added that he can foresee the scopey winner as making into a good jumper down the road.
Additional reporting by Eamonn Murphy
