Quevega's daughter Aurora Vega and Patrick Mullins© Photo Healy Racing
Quevega's foal Aurora Vega (1/5f) won impressively on debut today, landing Sligo's Irish Stallion Farms EBF Bumper for owner/breeders the Hammer & Trowel Syndicate and continuing jockey Patrick Mullins' outrageous recent record.
Aurora Vega's dam Quevega has a Cheltenham racecourse bar named in her honour and she today followed year-older sibling Facile Vega in winning impressively on debut, beating Littlebiggie by 12 lengths.
Jockey Mullins, with a whopping 13 wins from 17 rides this season, commented “she's like her mother, quite small and short but she's a strong barrel of a mare.
"Both times down the bottom of the track she fell asleep with me. She lost a couple of lengths the first time, I didn't mind as I was going a gallop, but the second time I was having to slap her down the shoulder six or seven times, but once we got upsides horses she locked on. My only worry in the last furlong was that she was looking at everything and that she might jam on, but she won with lots in hand.
"She's not the flashiest at home but I think she's probably better than her work and I think there's more there in the tank, she's one that will keep giving. I don't know what the plan will be now, but it's fantastic to wear these colours.
"It's nice, after winning on one of Annie Power's (Mystical Power), to get one of Quevega's and we have one of Augusta Kate's coming along as well."
While Mullins never race-rode Quevega, he quipped “I'm starting to feel like Ted Walsh but I'm not at the stage where I've ridden the grandams just yet!"
Winning trainer Willie Mullins was completing a double, having won an earlier hurdle with Stilyker
Quotes from Mark Nunan
