Tamadhor strides on under Chris Hayes to beat Slipper Orchid and Geoffrey Chaucer© Photo Healy Racing
She may have been odds-on favourite in a four horse field, and entitled to win, but it was difficult not to be taken with the very professional manner in which the three-year-old filly Tamadhor achieved her victory in the Book Tickets On-Line @ fairyhouse.ie Race.
Chris Hayes' mount, sixth in the Guineas behind Pleascach, at the Curragh seventeen days back, tracked the pace-setting Geoffrey Chaucer
Tamadhor took over from the quarter mile pole and she asserted in the final furlong to see off the older mare, Slipper Orchid by two lengths.
"They went no pace and it turned into a bit of a sprint from the top of the home straight. She will go now for the Pretty Polly if the boss agrees. That was the plan we had for her, and after that we will see what happens," reported successful handler Kevin Prendergast.
"She is pretty smart and she wants a mile and a quarter. She came home well in the Guineas and she wasn't far off those good fillies, so she might as well take her chance."
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