So Sensible stretches out well under Pat Smullen© Photo Healy Racing
Galway man Herb Stanley likes to have winners at Ballybrit and he struck here at the Festival this year with Beckwith Star. He was on the mark again at his local meeting when So Sensible landed the James P. Cunningham Electrical Handicap under Pat Smullen.
Stanley no doubt will have derived considerable satisfaction from this two length success as he also bred the Tagula gelding and the three-year-old certainly didn't go un-backed here as he went off the 9/2 joint second favourite.
Winning trainer Tracey Collins revealed: "That is actually the first horse Herb has bred as well so that's good."
She then added: "I'm very pleased with him. Pat said I was wrong the last day, I thought he would get a mile and a quarter but he didn't so we just stepped him back.
"Pat gave him a lovely ride and he battled well to the finish. I'll see what is coming up for him but seven furlongs to a mile is his trip.
"He is a light framed horse, there is not a lot of condition on him and we will just see how he comes out of the race. He might go hurdling later on in the year." (DM & EM)
