McLoughlin hopeful of big run from Duckadilly in Concorde Trainer Danny McLoughlin is hoping that stable star Duckadilly can run a big race in the Listed Coolmore Sioux Nation Concorde Stakes at Tipperary on Sunday afternoon. A winner of her first two starts, the filly has subsequently acquitted herself with credit since being stepped up in stakes races in recent times. Although only ninth of 11 in the Group 1 Matron Stakes at Leopardstown on Champions Weekend, there were plenty of positives to take from that performance. McLoughlin said: “She’s well and she’s probably as well as she’s been all year. “She’s in the sale at the end of the year and I would have been disappointed if I didn’t get to give her a go on that ground and see. “The ground dried out plenty the last day in Leopardstown. It’ll be an extreme obviously tomorrow but it’ll be interesting to see. “We think she’ll handle that better than it being too quick. We’ll see tomorrow. “She was beaten six lengths in a Group 1 the last day. It’s different being beaten six lengths and coming home than being beaten six lengths and going backwards. “She was coming home after the line and initially I thought she had finished fifth or sixth but then I looked back at it and she had finished ninth. Still it was a big run. “We’ll learn a lot about her tomorrow. She’s in the sale at the end of the year and we’re running out of time. “She’s a good sound filly and I think she could race on next year as well. Maybe someone might buy her and send her back in, that would be the dream.” Additional reporting by Gary Carson.
