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Tom Weekes

Tom Weekes

Sale topper Sarrocchi lands Leop'town gamble

Sat 28th Oct 2017, 14:09

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© Photo Healy Racing

The Aidan O’Brien trained Sarrocchi has had an extraordinary week, and five days after topping a Horses-In-Training Sale at Goffs, today landed a sizeable gamble on debut in the opening Tote Irish EBF (Fillies) Maiden at Leopardstown today, to provide her jockey Michael Hussey with a first winner this season.

The daughter of Galileo went through the Sales ring at Goffs for E215,000 on Tuesday, having been previously registered in the ownership of China Horse Club International Ltd, but today scored in the colours of Mrs John Magnier and Mrs E. Irwin.

Racing from stall 16, the juvenile daughter of Galileo raced in mid-division and had plenty on her plate with two furlongs to race. However she picked up strongly when Hussey asked for maximum effort in the closing stages and in the end reeled in New To Town close home, to score by a length and a quarter.

In the betting market, there were initially no takers at 10/1 last night and early this morning about Ballydoyle newcomer Sarrocchi winning, but at approximately 11am her price was gradually cut. She opened up a 6/1 chance on track, and was eventually returned the heavily supported 7/2 favourite.

O’Brien can today enter the history books with a 26th Group 1 winner of the year at Doncaster and after Sarrocchi’s win, jockey Hussey, who won the Listed King George V Cup last year for the trainer with The Major General, stated “she's (Sarrocchi) a nice filly and did it the hard way, as she was as green as grass early. When she got going she got going well.

“She's been doing things right at home and as usual ours take a run but she got it right.

“She should be a mile plus filly next year.”

Quotes from Gary Carson

1st
7/2Fav
Tote €4.90 €1.80
2nd
1.25L
7/1
€2.50
3rd
2.25L
9/2
€1.40
4th
0.75L
20/1
About Tom Weekes
A lifelong racing fan, Tom began writing point to point reports in 2002 and has reported for irishracing.com since 2003, when he joined Irish Racing Services - since taken over by the Press Association. Has ridden a point to point winner and won the 2018 Irish Field Naps Table.