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Mark Nunan

Mark Nunan

Step up to seven sees Fogarty filly in front

Fri 4th Oct 2019, 20:26

She's A Babe (yellow and black) gets the better of CrotchetShe's A Babe (yellow and black) gets the better of Crotchet
© Photo Healy Racing

It looked like 4/1 favourite Crotchet might be another one for Donnacha O’Brien as she travelled well to lead halfway down the straight, but Leigh Roche had used that one as his target and he produced She’s A Babe (25/1) to lead inside the final furlong and gain a short head verdict. Festina Plente (9/2) was a length and a quarter back in third.

A fifth winner of the season for Aidan Fogarty (runs Royal Ascot runner-up Forever In Dreams in the Prix de la Foret on Sunday), the winner had started her career in France and won as a two-year-old in Vichy.

She was trying seven furlongs for the first time here, and settled well under a patient steer before finding enough to just hold on from the rallying market leader.

“I jumped and travelled very nicely throughout the race, said the winning rider Leigh Roche.

“She won over five before so we said we'd give her every chance to see out the trip. She travelled and when I asked her a furlong-and-a-half down she picked up for me.

“She was game and hit the line well. I thought she had won by further than she did, I thought I was a good head up on him.

“Going by the line Donnacha said well done so I was surprised when they said a short-head, I thought it was a little bit more cosy but she won and it's great.”

Additional reporting by Gary Carson

1st
25/1
Tote €33.10 €10.40
2nd
shd
4/1Fav
€1.60
3rd
1.75L
9/2
€2.10
4th
nk
9/1
About Mark Nunan
Mark has followed racing since he was a teenager and worked for many years as a broadcaster with the Irish version of Racecall. He joined the Press Association in 2019 and is also a contributor to the Racing Post. A native of Kildare, he now lives in Sligo.