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- Review curragh 11th Sep
Review curragh 11th Sep
< Sans Frontieres was delivered with a sweeping late challenge by Olivier Peslier to take the Irish Field St Leger at the Curragh in commanding style.
The Jeremy Noseda-trained four-year-old was given a patient ride and sat well off the pace, but he was poised to strike as Profound Beauty cruised into the lead with two furlongs to run.
Pulled to the outside, Sans Frontieres (13-8 favourite) found a smart turn of foot to lead close home to score by a cosy three-quarters of a length.< Pathfork maintained his unbeaten record in the boylesports.com Vincent O'Brien National Stakes, but Jessica Harrington's colt had to pull out all the stops to win.
The 2-1 shot led two furlongs out in the hands of Fran Berry and established what looked a decisive lead, but Casamento would not give in and put in a renewed challenge that came up short by just a head.< Zoffany who was sent off the 6-4 favourite, tracked Pathfork for a long way but found disappointingly little at the business end and was a further five lengths away.< Longhunter (3-1 joint-favourite) got back in the winning groove in the hands of Declan McDonogh with a narrow victory in the Irish Field Blenheim Stakes after a duel with Katla
The pair swept past pacesetter Emperor Hadrian a furlong and a half out and it was nip and tuck through the closing stages until Kevin Prendergast's juvenile grabbed the prize by a short head.< Admiral Barry (10-1) landed a big pot in an amateurs' race at the Galway Festival and Eoin Griffin's five-year-old repeated the trick in decisive style in the Curragh Amateur Derby EBF (QR) Handicap, winning by four and a half lengths under Mikey Fogarty.
Eddie Lynam's Good To Follow was sent off the 100-30 favourite for the www.thetote.com Handicap and Pat Smullen delivered a late challenge to catch Blue Dahlia and win by three-quarters of a length.
Joseph O'Brien won the last two races on Harriers Call (10-1) and Oracle (5-2), the latter ploughing a lone furrow up the far rail in the Thorough Brew Village EBF Maiden and hanging on by a h