Whiteout and Declan McDonogh go clear© Photo Healy Racing
Whiteout bounced back to form with a dominant front-running performance in the Irish Tatler Handicap at the Curragh.
Declan McDonogh bounced out in front on the 2/1 favourite and she powered away in the closing stages for a five-and-a-half length success in the two-miler.
The Willie Mullins-trained winner had been well held on her last couple of outings over timber after a fall at Punchestown in February.
“She loved that ground and moved brilliant. Going down to the start she felt brilliant,” said McDonogh.
“I rode her in the Cesarewitch last year and she felt totally different today. She kept taking me there and in the little hollows in the track she was running in my hands and loving it.
“She won the Ulster Cesarewitch over 2m2f so I was always going to make it an even pace.
“As soon as I gave her the office she picked up and quickened well.
“Ruby said she gave herself a fright when she got a fall and never really got her confidence back.
“That might just put her in the zone now. Willie was confident and Ruby said she'd take beating so they were spot on.”
