Chally Chute goes one better in the Cesarewitch Chally Chute gains compensation for last year's unlucky second in this corresponding race as he stays on strongly to win the Friends of the Curragh Irish Cesarewitch at the Curragh over two miles and one furlong. After having only two starts earlier in the year, this was clearly the seasonal target for Ross O'Sullivan's charge. Breaking from stall 21, Sam Coen managed to get his mount tucked into the second wave of horses about halfway back. The 16/1 shot travelled well into the straight before spying a gap and being asked to go about his business two furlongs out. Julie White's gelding stayed on strongly to grab the lead inside the final fifty yards and held off the late surge of Sirius (28/1) to win by half a length. Galileo Dame (25/1) was in front from the top of the straight but was ultimately outstayed and had to settle for third, beaten three-quarters of a length. Winning trainer Ross O’Sullivan said, "You don't often get a second bite of the cherry. For the rain to happen this morning. As Julie(White, owner)said, it was meant to be. He won a Listed race last year and came here after. This year, we went to the Listed race and were probably unlucky not to win. Nearly out of a panic, two weeks later we went for another Listed race in Roscommon and he finished fifth. The bright side of that result was that he was dropped 3lb which allowed him back into this race. "He's coming back into this race with a little bit more weight than last year. Obviously all week, you are a little bit nervous with the ground and then the heavens open last night and this morning and he gets the ground that he is best in. It's great that it all worked out. We came so close last year and we thought that was our one and only chance. For it to happen, it's magic. For Julie and Dominic, they've worked in racing all their lives. The horse has a great meaning to us; the man he is named after was very close to our family. "He's in the Cadran next week but it'll probably be too soon. He's in another race in Saint Cloud. He won the Loughbrown here last year, a Group 3. Donagh O'Connor has done a lot of the work on him all year and the horse is his ride. It's only the way this race turned out with him having a lot of weight that we had to claim off him. We'll see what Julie wants to do, whether she wants to role the dice for France. He's a creature of habit and loves his routine, so I'm not sure how he'd take to it. The Curragh might be the place for him." Additional reporting by John O’Riordan.
