TRALEE (25 Aug 2005)

Yielding To Soft

4:00 DNG W H Giles Auctioneers Handicap (3yo,40-70)

[off 4:00] £5,390.78, £1,256.03, £553.90, £319.86 7f

Comments In Running OR TS RPR

1 Star Of Russia (6) C Collins 3 9-2 P Shanahan 5/1 60 — —

2 1½ Ciaras Luck (5) Edward Lynam 3 9-3 p C O´Donoghue 12/1 61 — —

3 1½ Rose Of Alabama (GB) (9) Liam McAteer 3 9-4 V R De Souza 16/1 62 — —

4 2½ Decarl (8) Declan Gillespie 3 9-1 p M C Hussey(3) 10/1 62 — —

5 1 Haiti (10) Michael Cunningham 3 8-8 p P B Beggy(5) 12/1 57 — —

6 Indian Four (4) Thomas Cooper 3 9-7 C D Hayes(5) 7/2F 70 — —

7 Orpen Guama (3) John F Gleeson 3 9-6 W M Lordan 20/1 64 — —

8 Mrs Munnings (2) Francis Ennis 3 9-1 M A Cleere(7) 10/1 66 — —

9 Indian Bounty (GB) (14) John Joseph Murphy 3 9-0 B S Carey(7) 20/1 65 — —

10 Infozoid (11) Augustine Leahy 3 9-1 N G McCullagh 16/1 59 — —

11 Devil Fish (7) Edward Lynam 3 9-7 p J A Heffernan 14/1 65 — —

12 Mountain Melody (1) Patrick Carey 3 8-12 P J Smullen 6/1 56 — —

13 Head And Shoulders (15) K J Condon 3 9-4 b D P McDonogh 12/1 62 — —

14 Itsonlywoody (13) Edward P Harty 3 9-7 K J Manning 12/1 65 — —

15 Salishan (12) M Halford 3 8-12 p E M Butterly(7) 7/1 63 — —

15 ran TIME 1m 34.00s TOTAL SP 142%

NON RUNNERS: Amelia Anne ,Glenviews Babalou (USA) ,Visiting Angels

1st OWNER: B Kerr BRED: Dr J Ryan & Rozelle Bloodstock TRAINER: C Collins

2nd OWNER: Edward Lynam

3rd OWNER: Miss Pamela McAteer

TOTE WIN £3.90 PL £1.60, £4.40, £5.20; Ex £59.50; CSF £76.50; TRICAST £954.69

ANALYSIS: Raised 5lb for her neck win on good to firm ground at Bellewstown eight days previously, STAR OF RUSSIA coped with the very different conditions well here and asserted inside the final furlong after being switched out to deliver her challenge betweenhorses. She won driven out and should be competitive again in similar company.

Ciaras Luck, running in her first handicap and trying this trip for the first time, performed well. In front soon after the start, she was in the front rank all the wayand was back in front a furlong out before the winner proved the stronger in the closing stages.

Rose Of Alabama produced her best run of the season and achieved a first three placing for the first time in nine starts. The ground obviously suited her and she had every chance from the turn in until failing to find any extra inside the final furlong.

Decarl, winner of a seven-furlong handicap on heavy ground at Naas in April, had not run since May and in staying on quite well in the closing stages she showed enough to be worth bearing in mind for another handicap in the coming weeks.

Haiti, who led for almost seven furlongs when fourth over this trip on fast ground at Bellewstown eigth days previously, was in front after three furlongshere but was unable to raise her game when taken on early in the straight.