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Quinta Girl continues O'Callaghan's good run

Connections of Quinta GirlConnections of Quinta Girl
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Quinta Girl (13/2) gained a maiden success in the Membership At Gowran Park Fillies & Mares Claiming Race, before going unclaimed.

The Sioux Nation filly had been placed in a Curragh maiden in June and was produced by apprentice jockey Reese Holohan to lead inside the final furlong, beating Tax Me Later by a half-length.

In-from winning trainer Michael O'Callaghan, who bagged July's Group 2 Railway Stakes and last weekend's Group 3 Round Tower Stakes, reported "It was overdue for Quinta Girl to get her head in front. She's a filly that we liked and thought she'd have won a maiden or something before now.

“When we saw this race and the conditions of it, we put her in. Reese's 7lb claim was a big help and he said that she's just in a different league.

“I thought she was probably well handicapped, even though the handicap didn't come into play, and I thought her mark was probably a bit lenient. She's probably an 80-rated filly, so it's good that she's gone and won." 

Quinta Girl went unclaimed at €25,000, although runner-up Tax Me Later was later picked up at that same price by the Dreamers Alliance Syndicate, to be trained by Kevin Coleman.

Quotes from John O'Riordan

1st
13/2
Tote €8.20 €2.20
2nd
0.5L
9/2
€1.70
3rd
5L
13/2
€2.10
4th
1.75L
3/1
bf
3.75L
6/4Fav
About Tom Weekes
A lifelong racing fan, Tom began writing point to point reports in 2002 and has reported for irishracing.com since 2003, when he joined Irish Racing Services - since taken over by the Press Association. Has ridden a point to point winner and won the 2018 Irish Field Naps Table.