Kiltealy Park swoops late to peg back Dani Kiltealy Park completed a 76/1 double on the card for local trainer Paul Nolan when gaining an unlikely success in the Rosslare Strand Hurdle at Wexford. The odds-on Dani Donadoni asserted off the home bend and looked set to justify odds of 4/5 when three lengths clear at the last. However, the distress signals went out on the favourite in the closing stages and the patiently ridden Kiltealy Park got up on the line under Alan O’Sullivan to score by a neck at odds of 6/1. Lemmy Caution weakened in the straight finishing 20 lengths back in third. Nolan said, “It didn’t look likely and I’d say yer man must have been 1/100 jumping the last!. “It’s nice to get her back on track; she had a few disappointing runs. “She was very unlucky in the Blazers one year and then we put blinkers on her and she was a bit keen. We said we’d leave them off and try to settle her. “It was ideal today in a four-runner race to lob around and get her confidence back. It’s great to win something that didn’t look likely. “It looked all over and I would have been happy with second, but she galloped well to the line. We’ll see where we go from here.” Nolan was also on the mark earlier with Sageborough (10/1), while O’Sullivan was recording his second win as a professional having opened his account just 24 hours earlier at Ballinrobe. Quotes by Gary Carson
