Sapphire enters Melbourne calculations

Dermot Weld and Pat Smullen, fresh from a reasonably successful Galway, turned their attention to Cork yesterday and duly combined to land the featured Group 3 Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Give Thanks Stakes with Sapphire.

Sapphire enters Melbourne calculations
Mon, 06 Aug, 2012 - 01:00
Pat Keane

The daughter of Medicean looked to be in a different league to the opposition and duly confirmed such thinking with a smooth success.

The four-year-old was always travelling sweetly in Demurely’s slipstream and this was over once Smullen said go with more than two furlongs to run.

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CourtsRacingPlace: MelbournePlace: GalwayPlace: CurraghPlace: KilternanPlace: LeopardstownPlace: NaasPlace: TipperaryPlace: TyronePerson: SapphirePerson: Dermot WeldPerson: Pat SmullenPerson: MediceanPerson: DemurelyPerson: SmullenPerson: WeldPerson: Akeed MofeedPerson: John OxxPerson: CamelotPerson: OxxPerson: DubawiPerson: Niall McCullaghPerson: BarackPerson: David WachmanPerson: Curly WeePerson: Fran BerryPerson: Jim BolgerPerson: LeargasPerson: Tommy StackPerson: Wayne LordanPerson: Angel BrightPerson: Fozzy StackPerson: Declan McDonoghPerson: Tom FoleyPerson: McDonoghPerson: Antonius PiusPerson: FoleyPerson: Michael HusseyPerson: Gothen NiecePerson: Christy DonoghuePerson: Andrew OliverEvent: EBF Give Thanks StakesEvent: Melbourne CupEvent: Listed Platinum StakesEvent: Irish DerbyEvent: Tote Trifecta Rollover HandicapOrganisation: Farms’Organisation: Three Sea CaptainsOrganisation: Galway
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