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Agatha gets important winning brackets

Saint Agatha and Seamie Heffernan Saint Agatha and Seamie Heffernan
© Healy Racing Photos

The well-bred Saint Agatha gained a breakthrough success with a convincing win in the fillies handicap at Cork.

Fozzy Stack's charge hit the front a furlong-and-a-half from home, under Seamie Heffernan, and pulled clear late on to record a three-and-three-quarter length success.

The 6/1 winner had been placed in two maidens and was making her second handicap start.

She is a daughter of Group 3 winner Scream Blue Murder and a half-sister to three stakes performers including Listed winner Too Soon To Panic, the dam of Group 1 winner Thesecretadversary.

Heffernan said afterwards:- "I thought plenty of her last year and she had a very good first run at the Curragh, but has disappointed since.

"She has been working well on the grass lately and Fozzy said the ground wouldn't be a problem.

“She was down to a mark of which we thought she was way above and hopefully now she can get back up to what we thought she was.

"Fozzy's are trained to be tough, and when the ground gets slow, toughness comes into it."

(Quotes by Tom Weekes)

1st
6/1
Tote €7.00 €1.80
2nd
3.75L
12/1
€3.70
3rd
2L
6/1
€1.70
4th
1.25L
10/3Fav
About Gary Carson
Gary started out as a trainee/assistant journalist with the Sporting Life newspaper and has worked in the racing industry for over 25 years. He has been with the Press Association since 2013 and won the Irish Field Nap Table in 2016. He enjoys working with horses and trained his own horse, Mamaslittlestar, to win a point-to-point in 2019.