Downpatrick Review Backed from evens in the morning into 4/6 for the Baileys Outshine Hurdle, Final Day didn't let his supporters down with a fluent success under Paul Carberry. Taking his score to four wins from six starts (he was second on his two other efforts), the Bob Back six-year-old took over at the last and he eased away to beat Auenschutze by three lengths. Trainer Gordon Elliott said of his charge: "He is a nice horse, better than the horses that usually win here. He'll go to Galway now for a novice hurdle on either the Wednesday or the Thursday." Elliott had earlier been out of luck with beaten favourites in the first two races, Silverlord failing to shine behind Golden Grimshaw, who was having his first run for Jimmy Lambe in the opener. Barry Geraghty, who later heads for Killarney, did the steering on the ex-Andrew Lee trained eight-year-old. Templar Knight, the Capranny Stables representative in race two, went down by six lengths to Michael Mulvany's Down The Dale with Tim Carroll aboard. Baizically overcame making a mistake at the second last to easily capture the Race On Baileys Maiden Hurdle for John 'Shark' Hanlon. Conor O'Farrell rode the chestnut son Galileo and Hanlon commented: "He did it easy, he's a maiden rated 103 and he was entitled to win. He'll go to Galway, the team are just coming right for Ballybrit now. This lad is improving all of the time." The day after his fellow county man, Shaun Harley was on the mark at Killarney, Donegal handler Ray McGlinchey struck with the Keith Donoghue ridden McSwynes Bay in the Baileys Racing Range Handicap Hurdle. This fellow got lonely close home but when Garamor Boy got to him, the eight-year-old pulled out enough to prevail by a neck. McGlinchey remarked: "He burst a blood vessel last time and the plan was just to get him here in good health. There were no more plans than that." Noel Meade's Stigh Collain made a winning debut under Nina Carberry in the Baileys Topline Mares INH Flat Race. Meade said of the well-bred daughter of Until Sundown: "She is out of a sister to Harchibald. She is not that big and she could well appear on the flat. She has schooled though and she jumps quite well. She wouldn't want extremes of going."
