Siesta Beach and Leigh Roche© Photo Healy Racing
Michael O’Callaghan has enjoyed a good year with his juveniles and Siesta Beach provided the Curragh trainer with his tenth individual two-year-old winner in the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Fillies Maiden at Naas.
The 11/4 chance led over a furlong out under Leigh Roche and soon asserted to score by a convincing length and a half. Knocklane Lass finished with a bit of a flourish on the stands’ side rail to take second with well-backed 5/2 favourite Karkiyna a further half-a-length away in third.
O’Callaghan said, “She deserved that and has been knocking on the door. We were quite excited about her after her first run and she just over-raced a bit here the second day.
“She’s learned again from her last run. The ground went for her at Navan where it was very soft and that yielding ground today was just ideal for her.
“It’s nice to shed her maiden tag and she’s a filly we could get a bit of black type.
“We might run her before the year is out in something like the Bosra Sham at Newmarket.”
