The Living Beauty winning in Cork© Photo Healy Racing
The Living Beauty made all in the Mallow Maiden Hurdle at Cork to get favourite backers off to a flyer at Cork.
The daughter of Yeats was sent off at 15/8 on the back of a runner-up finish in Navan last month.
In today's assignment over two miles Alan Crowe, sporting the JP McManus silks, sent her to the front from flagfall. A good jump at the second last enabled her to increase her lead over the pursuing pack. The result was never in doubt when the Christy Roche-trained filly slickly negotiated the last.
The winning margin was five lengths to Prince Kup (10/1). The placings were completed by Glance Of Doon at 8s.
Alan Crowe said: "I won races on her mother (Adarma) but she'll do well to live up to that but is a nice mare and jumps well.
"The ground is yielding to soft out there, that's all."
The Living Beauty shed her maiden status at the fourth time of asking.
Additional reporting by Thomas Weekes
