Villain turns to heroine for Eva

BALLYBRACK VIEW, the villain of the peace when colliding with her Whites Cross, Cork, owner Eva Lewis after a gallop last year and breaking her leg in four places, turned heroine when winning the Oaks Trial Stake at Charleville yesterday.

“That has completed my rehabilitation,” commented a smiling Eva who spent a considerable amount of time in hospital after the accident.

The winner was the even money overnight favourite but, after having a close call against Caoimhes Susie in the semi-final - coming late to get up - she was the outsider in the decider against Mrs Ann Condon’s (Conna) Why Tanyard Lily. However Ballybrack View again came from behind to win by a length.