Low Style and Michael O'Sullivan © Photo Healy Racing
Low Style got his handicap career off to the best possible start when taking the Leo Dolan Memorial Handicap Hurdle for Barry Connell and Michael O’Sullivan at Roscommon.
The 8/1 chance, available at double those odds overnight, was reappearing after a break of eight months and took control from before the last to beat Well Funded by a comfortable six and a half lengths.
The 15/8 favourite Golden Sandbanks could make no impression and was a head further back in third.
The victory completed a successful few days for O’Sullivan who partnered a double at Listowel on Friday including the valuable Ladbrokes Handicap Hurdle aboard Magnor Glory.
Connell said, “He was a shell of a horse last year and he ran in maidens at the good tracks. I thought 90 might be a bit hard for him on the basis of what he’d done but we left him out over the summer and he’s come back in a lot stronger.
“Hopefully he can go on from here. He won’t want bottomless winter ground and it was perfect for him today. We might step him up a little bit in trip.”
