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- Anna beats the boys at Limerick
Anna beats the boys at Limerick
Course and distance winner Rory Anna (off the track since July) belied her market position as the outsider of the three runners in the O'Kelly Brothers Demolition & Environmental Contractors Hurdle with a convincing success under Eddie Power at Limerick.
Taking on a couple of Gigginstown House Stud-owned geldings in Big Game Hunter and Sounds Of Jupiter, John Joe Walsh's mare Rory Anna took over before two out. The odds-on favourite Big Game Hunter was struggling from as early as the fourth and it was left to Sounds Of Jupiter to fill the runner-up spot, eight lengths adrift of the winner. There was a distance back to Big Game Hunter (found to be lame afterwards).
Walsh said of Rory Anna: "She is a lucky mare. That's her second win over hurdles and she jumps well, stays well and goes on this ground. We'll go for something similar now."