Casheldale Lass enjoys her handicap debut at Gowran

Casheldale Lass left form figures of three 'duck eggs' firmly behind when scooping the Sonix Entertainment Handicap over and extended 1m1f in Gowran Park.

Robbie Colgan had her prominent from a tough draw in 15 and she was soon positioned in second behind Academe

Colgan was rowing away over three furlongs out and his partner responded to lead entering the straight. She found plenty climbing the hill to the final furlong and strode away to score by five and a-half lengths at 28/1 in first-time cheekpieces on handicap debut.

Academe finished second at 33s and was half a length up on Lisnadill (17/2).

Andrew Kinirons said: “I’m delighted with that. We know the family well.

“She’s a bit hot. I half fancied her the last day and we had a hood on to try and settle her as she was keen the first day but she nearly settled too much, I think.

“We stuck the cheekpieces on today. She always showed a good bit working, but she used to get worked out.

“Paul O’Brien has done a lot of jumping with her recently and it seems to have settled her.

“We were scratching our heads after the last day so we just changed tactics all together and said we’d go forward here. I was a little worried about the ground.

“I thought she was a nice filly and did good work as a two-year-old. We actually fancied her first time out even though the family take time.

“We had the brother Liffeydale Dreamer, who was a decent horse.

“She’ll be a dual-purpose filly. She’s a real game filly and she finally showed today what we thought of her at home.

“The family is a little bit hot and she used to boil over a bit at home on the Curragh. We kind of stopped working her and starting schooling her since the last day.

“Robbie won on the brother as well, so it’s great.

“I’m delighted for Gary and Sean (Murphy, owners). They are good craic and they were very patient. Hopefully she’ll be a fun filly for them.”

Additional reporting by Gary Carson