SnowflakeDancer delivers at Dundalk

COOLMORE sire Dylan Thomas made an immediate impact with his first runner, Snowflake Dancer, which prevailed in a blanket finish to the opening two-year-old maiden at Dundalk last night, and then survived a Stewards Enquiry.

Snowflake Dancer is trained by Jim Bolger for Mrs June Judd, the connections responsible for Whip Rule, awarded the first two-year-old event of the season in the Stewards Room at the Curragh on Sunday.

And, like Whip Rule, the Dylan Thomas colt was strongly ridden by Kevin Manning, who had the colt in the firing-line throughout before keeping on gamely to hold the Richard Fahey-trained One Kool Dude (with Declan McDonogh deputising for the absent Paul Hanagan) by the minimum margin.