Michael O Callaghan pictured with his wife Siobhan and Colin Keane© Photo Healy Racing
I Am Superman returned to form when taking the Bar One Racing ‘Bet 10 Euros Get 50 Euros Sign Up Offer’ Handicap in convincing fashion on his first start at Dundalk.
The Footstepsinthesand gelding won three times for Michael O’Callaghan before being sent out to Australia for three years and he also had a spell in Dubai earlier this year.
An easy time in the last six months has helped recharge the batteries and the 7/2 favourite, available at 15/2 overnight, was prominent throughout over this mile trip.
Colin Keane sent him to the front early in the straight and after being ridden to assert over a furlong out, kept on really well to beat Hodd’s Girl by three and a half lengths. Ransom was a further length and a quarter back in third.
O'Callaghan said, "He's a very good mover.
"There was a lot on him I suppose coming back from Australia, back to Ireland and then going to Dubai where he ran well and was placed in a Group 2 out there. Then he came back, tipped away during the summer and we just freshened him up.
"He was placed in a Group 1 (in Caulfield, Australia 2022). He just has his enthusiasm back, he was flat after all the travelling both from Australia to Dubai and back to Ireland again.
"He seemed well at home during the summer, but just wasn't interested. We just freshened him up."
When asked if he will travel again, he replied: "No, he owes us nothing and he has done enough there to win a nice pot tonight and maybe he will target Listed and Group 3 races next year over seven furlongs and a mile."
Quotes by Michael Graham
