Tocororo and Bryan Cooper© Photo Healy Racing
The Mulberry Restaurant @ Breaffy Hurdle went along expected lines as 4/9 chance Tocororo scored by seventy five lengths in the hands of Bryan Cooper at Ballinrobe.
The successful Teofilo filly was on the way to a comfortable victory but the winning distance would have been nowhere near as far had her Gordon Elliott-trained stable companion Buyer Beware not fallen at the last. Boom Box was hampered and unseated Mark Bolger (picked up an injury in the incident) leaving Satnav Sally to come home a long way behind in the silver medal position.
"It wasn't the strongest race in the world but it was grand to get it. Bryan is going off to get a pin in his leg removed tomorrow so at least he is going out on a winner. He will be out for three to four weeks," commented Elliott.
"Bryan said she loved the better ground and that she was different filly on it altogether. I have planned on going jumping fences with her now, and she will get a mares allowance and four-year-old allowance."
Mark Bolger had a deep laceration to his arm and is gone to UCHG in Galway to be checked out.
(DM & EM)
