Quiz Test (right) beats the blinkered Givemefive© Photo Healy Racing
Third on handicap debut at Navan earlier in the month, Quiz Test (14/1) went two places better in the three-year-old handicap over ten furlongs.
Ridden by James Ryan, the Footstepsinthesand gelding came from rear of mid-division and made good headway down the outer to hit the front inside the final furlong. At the line he was three-parts of a length to the good over Givemefive who had been sent for home early in the straight but proved unable to fend off the winner's late thrust.
The winner is trained near Athy by Sean Byrne and owned by his wife Brenda.
Their son, Sean junior, assists his father and said: "I work for Jessica Harrington and we picked him up from her for handy enough money last winter and gelded him which helped, as he had his mind on other things.
"We were delighted with his first handicap run the last day, he came on from that and today worked out well. We bought him to go hurdling as his half-brother Futurem Regem stayed 2m4f over hurdles and I think there is another bit of improvement in him, so we might aim for another Flat race.
"We only have four horses in training at the moment but do a lot of pre-training for the Harringtons and are busy at that. I spend mornings in Harringtons and evenings at home."
Quotes from Tom Weekes
