Red Tea 'quite impressive' in Curragh finale Red Tea powered home to take the last at the Curragh, the Curragh On Hallowed Ground Handicap. A luckless fourth on her debut for Joseph O'Brien at Gowran last month, the daughter of Sakhee was well-fancied to go a few places better today. Sent off the 5/1 favourite, the Capel Street Syndicate owned six-year-old raced towards rear under Donnacha O'Brien. She made some progress into mid-division from halfway, and was ridden to lead over a furlong out, keeping on strongly from there, scoring easily by four and three parts of a length. The chestnut Fastar (14/1) finished second under Killian Leonard for Ger O'Leary, while Lethal Steps and (20/1) and Tony The Gent (16/1) were third and fourth respectively. Joseph O'Brien said afterwards: "She had a good run first time out for me in Gowran. Donnacha got a nice clean run up the outside and she was quite impressive. "She's a decent filly and could go for something like a Hunt Cup before aiming at Stakes races. "I think they went fast and a good few winners have come up that stands’ rail today so that was probably a help to her." The winner was previously trained in the UK by Peter Hiatt, and was bought for 42,000 guineas at Tattersalls Autumn Horses-In-Training Sale last October. STEWARDS REPORT * B.M. Coen, rider of Spiorad Saoirse (GB) trained by Andrew Slattery, reported to the Clerk of Scales that his mount stopped quickly. Additional reporting by Alan Magee
