Quinine (right) gets up to beat Abstraction (black/orange)© Photo Healy Racing
Shane Foley was seen to good effect when getting Quinine up in the closing stages to take the opening Lunn's EBF Maiden at Down Royal.
The 7/1 chance was unplaced in her three previous outings but that experience proved vital as she just got the better of newcomer Abstraction (10/1).
The runner-up was sent on well over a furlong out but Arthur Moore's charge was galvanised by Foley to peg him back close home. Golden Flower (100/30) completed the placings in third.
A delighted Moore said, “I’ve two two-year-olds in training and they’ve both won. My son in law Kevin Ross bought her at Newmarket. She’s progressive and thriving all the time.
"She could be a good three-year-old., and we'll look at a nursery now in Dundalk. She seemed to like that ground, it was a bit faster."
Owner Liam Flood, who is well known in Irish poker circles, has been with Moore for forty years. General Direction well-backed in the morning from 16/1 down to 9/2, went off the 3/1 favourite but the Reggie Roberts newcomer weakened from over a furlong out to beat just one home.
(Additional reporting by Michael Graham)
