The Real Screamer© Photo Healy Racing
The Real Screamer (13/2) made short work of his nine rivals in the 3-y-o handicap over the extended ten furlongs.
The Awtaad gelding, available at 14/1 overnight, had been well fancied when seventh on handicap debut at Navan before finishing down the field at the Curragh.
Here, on all-weather debut, he was dropped out off a strong gallop before making headway to lead over a furlong out and was pushed out by Chris Hayes to beat Dancing Steve by five lengths.
Trainer Paul Flynn said of the Nathan Matthews-owned winner: "I think that is Chris' first winner for me - he hasn't ridden too much for me as he is always booked and he's too good to ride for me!
"They went a savage pace and he picked it up and did it well.
"We thought he was well handicapped on his homework, but he has been really disappointing.
"He ran well in Navan actually and just maybe did too much on possibly too stiff a track.
"Then we thought on Navan to drop him back to a mile and that didn't work either.
"Basically, we were going to give up. I said I thought he would like the surface and we took a chance and it really worked.
"Chris said yes to racing the rest of the year, so we will go with that."
Quotes from Michael Graham
