Stars align for Syzygy at the Curragh The stars have aligned for Syzygy (13/2 — 100/30) recently and she completed a hat-trick of wins in the Curragh’s Final Furlong Podcast With 1xbet.ie Handicap today, for trainer Danny McLoughlin and jockey Ben Coen. Previously successful at Gowran in September and at today’s course on October 4, the three-year-old today raced behind the leaders on the outer and eventually led in the closing strides, to defeat Pillar Of Hope by a half-length. Regarding his Andrew Davis-owned winner, McLoughlin stated “she’s out of a Teofilo - the same as Nancee Spain I had who won in Roscommon, and they just seem to grow a leg on that ground. The two of them are kind of in the same boat, they were slow to learn but are improving all the time. “Ben said Syzygy knows she’s a racehorse now, even going down to the start she was fairly switched on and actually raced a touch keen. He said if he had got a bit of cover it would have suited better. I can’t give out about her as she’s after winning three in a row. She’s on the improve but that might be her for the year. “If it had been good ground it would probably have been a bad draw but on slower ground you see them coming home down the middle of the track to get the fresher bit of ground. That gave me a bit of confidence. “In all fairness to the filly, she had to be good and game and she was. Ben was excellent on her as per usual.” In astronomy, a syzygy is a roughly straight-line configuration of three or more celestial bodies in a gravitational system. Quotes from Gary Carson
