Raynama© Photo Healy Racing
The Dermot Weld Raynama gained her first success at the seventh attempt in the www.dundalkstadium.com Maiden at Dundalk tonight as the Aga Khan owned filly scored in first-time blinkers.
The 10/11 favourite carried maiden form figures of '7422-32' into today's race and today comprehensively beat all her rivals when scoring a three and a quarter lengths win over Rue D'Antibes
Afterwards winning jockey Declan McDonogh stated “she deserved that. She met Gerry Keane's horse (Laughifuwant) in Galway and he was a very impressive winner on the day. It was very heavy ground there and today she seemed to like this surface and skipped off it well.
“Her run behind I Can Fly, when she was four lengths behind, was always going to be good enough.
“She just side-stepped the gate; she had first time blinkers and just didn't ping them. I had to just get her up into it and then I was using Fish (Mark Enright on Dark Honey as a help around.
“She deserved to win and she's a nice filly. I don't know what the plan is with her but it's good to get a bracket with her.
Quotes from Gary Carson
