Opalite shows a swift turn of foot in Curragh opener The Curragh's opener was the 1xBet.ie Supports Safe Gambling Fillies Maiden over six furlongs and it went to newcomer Opalite (8/1, from 14s before the off) for father and son Andy and Andrew Slattery. The daughter of Zoustar, owned by Mrs Seamus Neville, tracked the leaders and moved into second over a furlong out before wearing down the always-prominent Slaney View (11/4 fav) to score by half a length. “I thought she’d run well, but I thought the ones with a few runs might do her for a bit of experience,” said winning trainer Andy Slattery. “It’s great for Seamus, he bought her off us a month ago, we hoped she was a nice filly. “He bought a few point-to-pointers off us before, they won a few races but didn’t work out, so it’s grand to sell him one now. “I think it’s his first Flat horse. He met me at Navan in January and said he’d love to get a Flat filly, and I said ‘I have one for you’ and this is it. “We like her and hopefully now she keeps going. “We might look at a stakes race, something like the Polonia, although we could maybe take our time with her if we got a winners’ race somewhere. I’d say she probably is a stakes filly. “She’s still a bit immature. We liked her last year at the back end, but we left her off and didn’t run her as she was a bit backward, and he said she’s still a little weak. “We’ll let her tell us where we go.” Additional reporting by Gary Carson
