Diesel powers home to claim Listed bumper under Barron The Ross O'Sullivan trained Switch From Diesel continued her rapid rate of improvement when quickening up smartly inside the final furlong to win the concluding Listed Irish Stallion Farms EBF Total Enjoyment Mares INH Flat Race at Fairyhouse. An experienced mare having her eleventh start in a bumper, the daughter of Yeats has stepped up a level in recent months. Runner-up to the subsequent Cheltenham Festival Bumper winner in a Grade 2 at the Dublin Racing Festival, the six-year-old took advantage of an easier assignment when scoring at Naas last time. Back in better company this afternoon, she always travelled strongly under Ray Barron before being asked to challenge favourite Future Prospect over a furlong out. Soon asserting to take the lead, the 3-1 chance kept on well to beat the staying on Carrigmooraspruce by six lengths. “She’s a classy filly and she seems to have improved from run to run as the year went on,” said Ross O’Sullivan. “She’s very exciting and she’s probably as good a horse as I’ve had for a while. “If everything stayed right with her she could be very good next year. “The plan is to go to Punchestown and then put her out on summer’s grass and go hurdling next year. “She did an extra year in bumpers and Paul was keen to do that. That was his plan and he stuck to it. “She’s turned into a real happy filly and that was very impressive. She has a high cruising speed and she’ll make a lovely mares novice next year.” Additional reporting by Gary Carson.
