Ballybrit boost for Weld and Smullen

FIREY Red gave Dermot Weld and Pat Smullen a timely pre-Galway boost when landing the Weatherbys Ireland GSB Ltd Supporting I.T.B.A. Race at Naas last night.

Off the track since May, the daughter of Pivotal, which won her maiden here last autumn, edged past front-running Drumbeat nearing the furlong pole before asserting to win by a length and a quarter in the colours of Moyglare Stud Farm.

Weld commented: “She did it well and is a smart filly. She hasn’t had a problem. I was just waiting for suitable opportunities and ground. Today’s mile was as far as she’d like to go. I see her more as a seven furlong filly, or seven and a half and she’ll go for the Fairy Bridge Stakes at Tipperary next, at the end of next month.”