Speedy filly gives McLoughlin a first juvenile success Trainer Danny McLoughlin registered a first juvenile winner today, she his well-backed Magny Cours (morning 25s, returned 15/2) landed Listowel’s Irish Stallion Farms EBF Fillies Maiden under jockey Ben Coen. Today’s race featured runners from top yards, with the winning daughter of Awtaad breaking well and racing prominently before beating £125,000-breeze-up purchase Luna Mia by a head. McLoughlin, with his fourth winner having had his first in May 2024, reported “Conor Quirke and his wife Catherine, from Fermoy, own her and have been very good to me. They got in touch last year, sent me two two-year-olds this year, so I couldn’t thank them enough. Conor is now like a fella I know ten years. “Catherine has a big love for horses and when this filly wasn’t making her €30,000 reserve last September, she dug her heels in to keep her, and how right she was.” He added “we thought a lot of her and we’ve always liked her. Scott McCullagh had ridden her work from the start so a big thanks to him, Ben (Coen) and Nathan Crosse who give me a dig out every week.” “I thought inexperience might get the better of her, but Ben said when he put his stick down, she put her head down and dug in. “She will strengthen up and Ben said she would be suited to six furlongs on a straight track, or maybe seven with a bend. We had the Group 2 Airlie Stud Stakes in mind for her in July so that could be looked at now, to hopefully get blacktype. “I have 20 horses in training, 11 two-year-olds and the yard recently came through from having a bug, which seems to be going around the country at the minute.” Magny-Cours is a motor racing circuit located in central France.
