Dalton off the mark as Slattery doubles up Jimmy Dalton partnered his first winner when in-foal My Girl Sioux (6/1) narrowly took the honours in the Newgrange Hotel Handicap at Navan, completing an across-the-card double for trainer Andy Slattery. Slattery was on the mark at Sligo through Killeaney Bear in a maiden hurdle under Cian Quirke, and at Proudstown Park My Girl Sioux held the fast-finishing Best Suggestion by a head. In what was an exciting conclusion to this sprint, there was just a short head back to Viamonte in third. "She is running so often the foal will be nearly fit to run in the first two-year-old race! I think she has three weeks (to race) left. We'll keep messing away with her," said Slattery. "Jimmy came to me about three years ago, he had very little riding done. Sam Coen and Adam Browne-Souza were there a bit before that, and he just kept improving and improving, and he's lighter than the lads. "He has a chance. This will do him the world of good. He's with me every day and is after making giant leaps. "His dad would be friendly with Colm O'Donoghue and he would be advising him as well. "He's from Tullamaine near Fethard." On Killeaney Bear Slattery remarked: "He did it well. He won a neck, but Cian said he couldn't pull him up after. "He's a horse I think I am going to have to put up to a mile and a-half on the Flat." M.W Hassett, rider of Mint Man (GB), trained by P.J.F. Murphy, reported to the Clerk of the Scales that his mount hung badly right throughout. (MG & EM)
