Serious defeat for Roundtree There was disappointment for Richard Hannon`s East Everleigh yard when 11-8 favourite Roundtree could only manage third place in the valuable Goffs IR£100,00 Challenge at the Curragh tonight. Victory went to the Tommy Stack-trained Serious Play (11-1), who stormed down the centre of the track to outpoint the well-backed (5-1 from 6-1) Minashki by a length. Despite disputing the lead with the runner-up for the majority of the six-furlong trip, Roundtree dropped away to finish two and a half lengths off the winner. 'Disappointing,' was how Hannon`s son, also Richard, described the performance of the easy-to-back favourite, who had opened an even-money shot in the ring. 'I don`t think she stays and we may have to go to five furlongs,' he said. 'She seemed to be going so well until the final furlong. 'We will think about the Lowther or go for a five-furlong Listed race for her,' he aded. The winner who opened his career by finishing five lengths third to Giant`s Causeway`s full-brother Roar Of The Tiger at Naas last week, is likely to go up in trip for his next outing. 'He`s a big horse and we`ll leave him until the back end over seven furlongs,' said Stack. Earlier, there was a good omen for the Ballydoyle stable at the start of Budweiser Irish Derby weekend when Chamela Bay (4-1) was a ready winner of the Derrinstown Stud Apprentice Derby. Aidan O`Brien`s charge responded positively to the urgings of Paul Scallan to come home three lengths ahead of 25-1 outsider Kramer. On her seasonal debut the well-bred winner had finished fourth to stablemate Galileo, the Vodafone Derby winner and odds-on favourite for Sunday`s Irish Derby, in the Ballysax Stakes at Leopardstown in April. Kramer`s jockey Jerry O`Dwyer had better luck in the opening Kildare Maiden when booting home 10-1 chance Specious for local trainer David Hanley, who paid IR£130,000 at Goffs for the daughter ofSpecturm who was bred by Serious Play`s owner Michael Begley and trainer Tommy Stack.
