Kerri Lyons celebrates the first winner in her own colours as Poetic Sound scores at the Curragh Kerri Lyons celebrated the first winner in her own colours as Poetic Sound completed a quick double for Ger Lyons and Colin Keane in the Sky Bet Race To The Ebor Handicap at the Curragh. A 10/1 chance, the five-year-old raced on the heels of the leaders and pegged back Henry de Bromhead’s front-running 100/30 favourite Factual Fact 100 yards from the finish to score by a length and a half with the Jarlath Fahey-trained 7/1 shot Granite Bay back in third place, a further length away. Emit came out of the pack to take fourth place, five lengths off the third horse home. “I’m delighted for Kerri, it’s the first winner in her colours. She rides him out every day,” said Lyons. “He’s been a slow burner, he’s had his issues. He’s just a pet. “The idea was to run him away, and he’ll go up and down the handicap, and have a bit of fun with him. “Sure it would be bad manners not to go over and enjoy the Ebor if he’s alive and well. “It’s all about going up and down the handicaps. When the horses are running bad they get dropped, it’s hard work when they are running bad but there is always a turn. “He just lost it last year and he looked like he had given up. “He’s the slowest horse in the yard by a trillion miles! I never know how he is going to run but Colin said it’s the best he’s ever felt.” Paddy Power gave Poetic Sound a quote of 20/1 for the Ebor Handicap at York.
