Like An Open Book and Wayne Lordan© Photo Healy Racing
It was less than ten lengths first to last in the eleven runner Assembly Techniques Handicap, but the best finishing burst came from Like An Open Book (10/1) in the Tramore feature.
The front two in the betting, Tornado Watch and Small Bit Of Love faded out of it in the closing stages to finish in the final two positions, as 'the closers' unleashed their final efforts.
For Wayne Lordan Like An Open Book led inside the last and had a margin of a length and three parts in hand over You Can't Catch Me
John Burke, winning trainer, was on lead-up duties, and it was left to his brother Martin to say: "She was unlucky in Galway the last day when two horses fell in front of her. She was tailed off for most of it and was ten lengths last, but still finished fifth.
"We thought she had a right chance in Ballinrobe last Monday but it was called off. She is a good mare, she has plenty of boot and loves passing horses.
"After her win in Roscommon she got a touch of a virus and just wasn't 100 percent. It's only now that she is coming right again. We might go back over hurdles with her now and she might go to Listowel.
"I don't think we'll chance her over fences, she is a home-bred and we'll mind her."
(DM & EM)
