Ballycommon Chapel gets her day in the sun Following on from The Truant in race six, Ballycommon Chapel was another big priced winner at 14/1 in the concluding Dan Cowman Memorial Handicap over two miles in Tramore. Patrick McGettigan guided her to the from a quarter of a mile out and the 37-rated horse kept on well in the final furlong to grab her first victory at the 35th time of asking. She didn't go unbacked as she was supported down from an opening show of 25/1. Dick Donohoe said: "It was long overdue. You'd want to be half mad to be keeping those ones going! "She had form, but disappointed a few times recently over hurdles. Maybe a few bad jumps affected her confidence. "It was her first run back on the level for a long time. She only ran once on the Flat for us and ran really bad and pulled up at the Junction one night. She is a bit like that, though. "I always knew there was a race of some description in her, be it on the Flat or hurdles. It was going to be hard to get into a Flat race off her mark of 37. Anything below 40 is first balloted out. When I saw there was only something like 12 entries for this, I said I'd stick her in. "Paddy is a great rider, he is a very good apprentice and is a chap going places for sure. "I'd say we will definitely go again on the Flat. Obviously, it was a soft enough race tonight, but it's easy to say that about any of them - you have to get there and do it. "Sometimes you can't beat a bit of perseverance, but you have to have some bit of madness in you to do it!" Additional reporting by Donal Murphy
