Newcastle-bound Swango scores for McGuinness Trainer Ado McGuinness is eyeing Newcastle’s finals' day fixture with today’s Dundalk winner Nikki Swango (6/4 — 1/1f), who easily landed the New Saddle Bar At Dundalk Stadium Handicap under Adam Caffrey. Initially rated 79 as a juvenile, Nikki Swango carried recent form figures of ‘2112’ into today’s race, including a runner-up effort last Friday, and quickened clear to score easily from Velvet Skies. McGuinness said "The handicapper put us up 2lb (to 68) for finishing second last Friday and while I hadn’t intended on running today, she ran so well that I decided to run her again. “He is going to hammer her again now but I said to Claire (Wylie, part owner) 'this could be a Newcastle horse'. She is going to get a right hike for winning today, but that mares' race on Good Friday has great prize money and it took only a 60-rated filly to win it last year. That race is a handicap and she could squeak in off the bottom. "She is well able to travel and as Adam said, the better horses took her into the race more. "We'll have to see what Mark (Bird) and Gary (O'Gorman, handicappers) do first and then we'll see. There's a good €25,000 seven furlong-handicap up here in a few weeks so we might have a look at that.” Quotes from Michael Graham
