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Coleman's Pacioli opens his account

Pacioli and Colin KeanePacioli and Colin Keane
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Fifth at Cork on last month's debut over a furlong shorter, Pacioli (6/1) showed the benefit of that experience when returning to the Munster venue to win the seven-furlong maiden under Colin Keane.

The Due Diligence gelding tracked the leaders on the far side of the track and went on over a furlong out. Green and wayward once in front, the winner nonetheless kept on well to beat Ocean Echo by a length and three-quarters.

Winning trainer Kevin Coleman explained "He is very green and was also green when he ran here a few weeks ago. He missed a lot of last year as he was very weak, so has never even led at home.

"We thought he'd want better ground, but didn't know really, and all he could do was do what he did. He is a very laid-back horse who gallops away at home, but is a very lazy type of horse.

"He obviously gets seven furlongs and will now go to the July Sales. We have to trade on these horses and the Atomic Racing ones aren't kept beyond their three-year-old careers.

"There is plenty of improvement in this horse, as he missed all of last year's education and we didn't even get him away to the Curragh (gallops) this year either. We ran him as these horses really have to be out before Royal Ascot (in June) to be worth any money."

Luca Bartolemeo de Pacioli was an Italian mathematician, Franciscan friar, collaborator with Leonardo da Vinci and an early contributor to the field now known as accounting.

He is referred to as the father of accounting and bookkeeping and was the first person to publish a work on the double-entry system of book-keeping on the continent.

Additional reporting by Tom Weekes 

1st
6/1
Tote €7.30 €2.10
2nd
1.75L
20/1
€4.80
3rd
4.75L
9/4Fav
€1.20
4th
2L
8/1
About Mark Nunan
Mark has followed racing since he was a teenager and worked for many years as a broadcaster with the Irish version of Racecall. He joined the Press Association in 2019 and is also a contributor to the Racing Post. A native of Kildare, he now lives in Sligo.