Eoin Doyle© Photo Healy Racing
Unraced Palm Sur may have drifted today from 12/1 to 20/1, but the four-year-old filly didn’t know that as she stayed on stoutly to win Killarney’s bumper with Paul Power in the saddle.
Once she picked up the lead from Blueberry Hill three furlongs out she saw out the two mile one trip nicely and had enough in hand to defeat Tirauli (11/4) by half a length.
Peter Fahey’s Queen Alphabet made good ground in the run-in to take third at 11/2, beaten five and a quarter lengths in total.
“She was very good. It was my first time on her and to beat geldings first-time out is a fair achievement considering it was her first time on grass,” jockey Paul Power said. Egyptian Warrior was well backed to deliver for Aidan and Sarah O’Brien (11/4 to 7/4f), but the Galileo gelding wasn’t competitive today in seventh.
Successful handler Eoin Doyle is in Portugal.
Additional reporting by Thomas Weekes
