Lee doubles up in Tipperary aboard Shoney Mehmas filly Shoney blitzed her rivals in the It's A Long Way To Being 50 Shane Anderson Maiden over five furlongs in Tipperary. She brought up a double for Billy Lee who was earlier successful aboard Rogue Legend for Paddy Twomey. Willie McCreery's filly was well away from stall one and took the field along. The opposition were all off the bridle approaching the final furlong and Lee soon asked her to go and win her race at the third time of asking. She ran on well on the rain-softened ground to come in clear by four and a-quarter lengths at 9/4 from runner-up Memphis Rose (25/1). Viamonte was a head off the runner-up in third at 9/1. McCreery said: "She is small, but is by a very good sire in Mehmas and he seems to put a lot of heart into his progeny, and she has heart. She tries very hard and, while one got away on her the last day in Sligo, she broke beautifully today. "It was important to get up on the high side (of the draw) here and Billy was eventually able to do that and she dictated. Billy said when he asked her, she put her head down, dropped lower again and took off. "When she is that small, you're not going handicapping with her, so we'll hope to nab black-type before the end of the year. That would turn her into a broodmare and then you could go to a nice big sire with her." Additional reporting by Tom Weekes
