Tahcawin wins readily on handicap debut The Joe-Murphy trained Tahcawin (9/2) proved far too good for her nine rivals in the Fairyhouse.ie Nursery. Having shown promise in her first two 7f maidens before a below-par effort over that trip at Roscommon, she was dropping back by a furlong and was held up towards the rear on the inner. Gary Carroll eased her towards the outside early in the straight and she made good headway to lead over a furlong out before readily going clear to beat Zarvali by four and a half lengths.  Joe Murphy junior said of Michael Mullane's Sioux Nation filly: “We were never as disappointed with a horse as we were with her in Roscommon last time. “We thought she was a very good filly all year, probably one of our best two-year-olds. “I don’t know what she’s beaten there today but hopefully the penny has just dropped now and she might go and do something a bit more next season. “She is in the Goffs Million, we probably won’t run her back but it’s an option. “We were scratching our heads a little bit in Roscommon, she stopped at the furlong pole and probably wasn’t even the winner at the furlong pole. “It was just one of those where we drew a line through it and moved on. “She got a mark of 70 so this was an obvious target from there and we trained her for this race and thankfully it worked out. “We won’t rush into anything now, we’ll get her home and mind her. She might be finished for the season and she could turn up in a good race yet.” Additional reporting by Gary Carson
