Graceful Star makes all to shed her maiden tag

PAT SMULLEN continued his determined quest to regain the Jockeys Championship when partnering Graceful Star to victory in the opening two-year-old fillies maiden at Roscommon yesterday.

Graceful Star makes all to shed her maiden tag
Tue, 04 Sep, 2007 - 01:00
John Ryan

Smullen notched his 68th success of the campaign on the Dermot Weld-trained Soviet Star filly, in the colours of Roscommon-born millionaire owner Sean Mulryan.

Building on the promise of her recent third to Katiyra at Leopardstown, Graceful Star made every yard of the running and kept going under Smullen’s driving to beat Melanesia by two lengths.

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CourtsRacingPlace: RoscommonPlace: LeopardstownPlace: Newlands NorthPlace: Oxford CityPerson: Graceful StarPerson: PatPerson: SmullenPerson: Sean MulryanPerson: KatiyraPerson: Declan McDonoghPerson: KhatimanPerson: Ken CondonPerson: Niamh MurphyPerson: PotionPerson: Sue Ann McManusPerson: J PPerson: David WachmanPerson: Fran BerryPerson: Davy MoranPerson: Frank EnnisPerson: CharyanPerson: Charlie SwanPerson: Cloone RocketPerson: Jim ConnaughtonPerson: MokoraPerson: Forty FootPerson: David CaseyPerson: Little RascalPerson: Owen DervinPerson: Barry ConnellPerson: SwanEvent: Jockeys ChampionshipEvent: Castlerea Claiming RaceEvent: Roscommon Hurlers HandicapEvent: National HuntOrganisation: & Sons
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