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Distaff double for Pat Foley

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Arctic Flame (13/2) survived a stewards' enquiry after Cork's handicap hurdle for mares to give her trainer Tom Foley a quick distaff double on the card.

Runner-up to stablemate Colleen Danu on her previous start at Clonmel, the Walk In The Park led from three out in the two and a-half mile contest, but hung left from the next and hampered runner-up Bossy Bird on the run-in.

First past the post by a length and a-half, Simon Torrens' mount kept the race after the stewards' deliberations. 

Foley, successful with another mare Gino Bella in the preceding contest, trains the six-year-old for his sister Sharon. 

"I would have thought it was a nice performance," said Torrens,

"I thought the horse in front turning in would bring me a bit further. She's got plenty idle there up the straight. She's ran around a good bit from the back of the second-last and has been lugging out left the whole way. 

"I always felt if something came to me she'd go on again, and I think she won snug enough at the line."

Additional reporting by John O'Riordan 

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.