Roi Du Mee leaves Pady trailing

ROI DU MEE made every yard of the running to trounce hot-pot Forpadydeplasterer in the three-runner, Grade 3 Star Chase at Punchestown yesterday.

Fri, 14 Oct, 2011 - 01:00
John Ryan

The Gordon Elliott-trained six-year-old, meeting the odds-on favourite 31lb ‘wrong’, dictated the pace, jumping well, and had Barry Geraghty’s mount in trouble when that rival made a mistake at the third last.

The favourite threatened to mount a challenge briefly before the second last. But Roi Du Mee galloped on relentlessly to triumph by 16 lengths.

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