August 2024 Performance Review
We wrapped up a successful, though somewhat frustrating, month in August with a 26% strike rate, and 53% of our runners finishing in the first two. With a bit more luck, we could have had more trips to the winners enclosure, but the team remains in good shape as we head into the autumn campaign.
Super Sox continued her upward trajectory in Pattern-level company when running out a decisive winner of the Listed Platinum Stakes in Cork. A Curragh maiden winner on her previous start in May, the daughter of Showcasing travelled strongly just off the pace and came through to lead inside the final quarter-mile.
"She is a nice filly and all her runs had been good but she won very impressively running quick sectional times on Guineas weekend. She did a 10.5 and an 11.07 (seconds) for the final two furlongs and the horse she beat won by nine lengths and 11 lengths on his next starts.”
"She is big, we gave her time and she has furnished her frame as she was quite light in the spring. She needed to fill and hopefully it's onwards and upwards. Billy said she could come back to six furlongs next year and we think she has a good future."
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Super Sox wins the Listed Platinum Stakes (Healy Racing)
It was nice to get One Look back on track to win the Listed Vincent O´Brien Ruby Stakes in Killarney for the Connolly Racing Syndicate. Last years Goffs Million winner disappointed us in Galway at the start of the month but showed a great attitude to bounce back in her two subsuquent starts.
She got her season back on track at Gowran when a close second to Wingspan in the Listed Hurry Harriet Stakes. Form of which has been boosted, with Wingspan finishing third in a competitive Snow Fairy Stakes at the Curragh on her next start.
Building on her promising run at Gowran, One Look showcased her growing potential at Killarney, securing her first stakes victory.
“I think she likes confusion; it was the same in Gowran and also in the Goffs Million but seems to like coming through horses and has the class to do that.”
“It was a wet, cold spring and some of these fillies can take a bit of time. She is a nice filly, is a stakes winner now and you'd imagine going to the Denny Cordell Lavarack Stakes in Gowran next month could be next.”
One Look wins the Listed Vincent O'Brien Ruby Stakes (Healy Racing)
Firebird has been a fantastic addition to the yard this season, so it was frustrating to see her narrowly beaten at the line when she looked poised to win the Group 3 Ballyogan Stakes at Naas on just her third start for us.
After two blistering wins at Cork and Naas she looks to be a filly with a bright future with Pattern-level success well in her sights.
"Her mother is a sister to Bluestocking, her sister was placed in the Sandringham and another sister sold for a lot of money also so it is a good Juddmonte pedigree. Hopefully there is more to come.”
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Firebird winning the Taste Of Kildare At Naas Racecourse Race (Healy Racing)
J’adore Chris looks like another filly on the upward curve after landing her maiden in good style in Roscommon this month. It was a good result for her owners Denise, Sarah & Aine Callanan of Nanallac Stud who purchased her privately at the Goffs Sportsman Sale for €6000.
“She had two good runs and I'd say she didn't quite stay running over slightly further in Killarney last time. We gave her a few weeks just to freshen up and this race presented itself. It looked like the right spot for her and we're delighted she won. Billy said that extended seven is as far as she wants to go for now.
“We could look at a winners' race or may look at the Ingabelle on Champions Weekend.
“I think we might take the hood off her the next day, she knows how to race. She is qualified for the Foran final as well.”
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J'Adore Chris with winning connections after winning her maiden (Healy Racing)
Changing codes, Seo Linn was a rare National Hunt runner for the yard in the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Fillies Flat Race in Ballinrobe this month, and she did not disappoint. An emphatic winner under Johnny Barry, she looks like a filly who can make an impact in Listed company later this Autumn.
Despite the gloomy conditions, she traveled comfortably behind the leaders and made her move two furlongs out, surging to the front and pulling away to defeat Tangara Bay by an impressive five-and-a-half lengths.
Johnny Barry remarked - “"She'd a great run here the first day and she came forward a lot from that, and mentally came on a good bit.”
"She wouldn't want extremes but went through that ground well."
"This race had been the plan for a while and she might go to Gowran Park for a Listed bumper in October."
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Seo Linn winning her bumper on second start under Johnny Barry (Healy Racing)