Prairie Girl defies draw to win on second start for Murphy Despite being drawn out wide, the Danny Murphy trained Prairie Girl overcame that obstacle to run out a comfortable winner of the View Restaurant At Dundalk Handicap at Dundalk. Jockey Shane Foley broke well on the 13/2 chance but had to sit and suffer out wide for the first part of the contest. Switched to the stands side over two furlongs out, the John Kirkland and Mrs Jim Ryan owned filly quickened up well to head Whatswrongnow over 150 yards out. Stretching clear close home, the daughter of Mehmas scored by three lengths. “That’s great. John Kirkland, lucky he stayed with me. My first winner was for him and Geraldine (Ryan), Ocean Baroque,” said Murphy. “Jim (Ryan) gave me that one to train and he said she’d win a couple for me, and he’s right. Jim is in hospital so it will cheer him up “The last day she missed the break a bit and we were confident today. “I wasn’t worried about the draw, sometimes a wide draw here can help you as they’d kill you here on the inside. “She’d probably get the six too.” Additional reporting by Gary Carson.
