Oxx’s Sligo raid pays-off handsomely

ON his first visit to Sligo since the eighties, John Oxx saddled both winner and runner-up, Cape Of Good Grace and Sceal Nua, in the feautured Irish Stallion Farms Connacht Oaks last night.

The Niall McCullagh ridden Cape Of Good Grace, winner of her maiden at Tipperary last month, looks a very progressive filly on the evidence of this convincing, length and a quarter win over her stable-companion, with Asiya third.

Oxx commented: “This was a very nice race, with good prizemoney and it turned out a very competitive affair. I had two improving fillies, suitable for the race, and, thankfully, they both ran very well.