Gambling Girl goes on from Sierra Sun© Photo Healy Racing
Smart hurdler Gambling Girl trounced her opponents in the Audrey McGrath Memorial (QR) Race at Wexford.
Jessie Harrington's six-year-old has lost her way in the sphere in which she made her name a bit, but appears in fine fettle on the level and was sent off the 2-1 favourite.
She took the lead off Sierra Sun inside the final two furlongs and never looked back, with Kate Harrington not having to get too busy in the saddle to triumph by six and a half lengths.< Catalyst gained a deserved success in the Irish Stallion Farms Fillies Maiden, but only just.
The 13-8 market leader had been placed on each of her six previous starts and looked like ending that sequence in emphatic fashion when shooting clear halfway down the straight, but Alveena emerged from the pack and gave favourite-backers a real scare, only to fail by a nose.
The application of blinkers did the trick for Los Barbados (9-4 favourite) in the Follow Wexford Racecourse On Facebook Maiden.
Since taking third behind classy stablemate Giovanni Canaletto on debut, the Galileo colt had suffered too costly defeats and hadn't been seen since May but he was a class apart here, strolling 11 lengths clear of The Last Marju
His trainer Aidan O'Brien followed up when Udogo (9-2) caught Mallory Heights in the shadow of the post in the Wexford Handicap (Div 1), and went on to enjoy a three-timer thanks to Kalopsia in the Enniscorthy Mares INH Flat Race.
The Tom McCourt-trained Crown Pleasure was a 19-race maiden heading into the second division of the Wexford Handicap but stuck her neck out to break her duck at 10-1, while Santo Prince (16-1) showed his appreciation for the return to the level by landing the Boolavogue Handicap.
Fran Berry timed his challenge just right on Manny Owens in the Children's Day At Bettyville Handicap.
Having his first start for Adrian Keatley, the 9-2 chance collared Cocoon in the dying strides to prevail by a neck.
