Gaoth Chuil doubles up on handicap debut Having shed her maiden status on the Flat when landing a QR race at Leopardstown recently, the Ted Walsh trained Gaoth Chuil followed up in the Rose Hotel Handicap at Killarney. Making her handicap debut and, with Chris Hayes in the saddle, the eight-year-old led after a couple of furlong and, made the rest. Strongly pressed early in the straight, the 15/8f carried the well known Michael Ryan colours to a comfortable two-and-three-quarter lengths win over Tribal Star. “She’s a right little mare. She stays well and handles that two miles. The ground wouldn’t want to be any quicker for her,” said Walsh. “She’d want an ease in it but it’s safe. Colin Keane rang me last night, because he had ridden her in Cork, and said the ground was as safe as you’d like and you could run anything on it. “If she reproduced her Leopardstown run she’d be hard to beat. “She’s not totally in love with jumping a fence. She jumps it but she doesn’t attack it. “She’ll go to Galway, whatever she gets in to. If she got into the big amateur handicap she’d run in it but if not there is a two mile handicap for her.” Quotes by Gary Carson.
