Son Of Beauty strikes for Thorne & Holohan A maiden winner over course and distance in March, Son Of Beauty (7/1) swooped late under Reese Holohan to take Dundalk’s one-mile handicap for trainer Stephen Thorne. The 5lb claimer had to bide his time on the Nando Parrado gelding whose path was blocked between the ‘two’ and the ‘one’. Once switched right for racing room entering the final furlong, the three-year-old bay kept on well to score by two heads from Daler and Gavoo. It was winner number 25 of the season for Holohan who looks likely to come up short in his bid to be champion apprentice, but he’ll certainly be the man to beat next year. “He’s a horse that obviously broke his maiden here earlier in the year and we then gave him a bit of time to mature and develop,” said Thorne. “We brought him back for the Madrid Handicap and he ran a cracker in that. “He ran a lovely race in Leopardstown in early summer and backed up a little bit too quickly in Gowran the following week. “We decided then to leave him off, he’s a big-framed horse so we said we’d give him time to mature and develop. “I think he’ll be a horse for up here during the winter. He’s still lightly raced and hopefully there should be another one in him. “I had a very similar horse here last winter, Far From Dandy, who won a couple and was second in the Spring Mile. “He mightn’t have the class of him but I’m hoping these three-year-olds can develop from three to four. “He’ll be kept lightly raced through the winter months and hopefully he’s a horse that can continue to progress.” Additional reporting by Gary Carson
