Cesarewitch stroll for Voleuse

The Dermot Weld-trained Voleuse De Coeurs gave Tuam-born apprentice Leigh Roche the biggest win of his career when justifying 6/1 favouritism in the Hacketts Bookmakers Irish Cesarewitch at the Curragh yesterday.

The three-year-old Teofilo filly, owned by Lady O’Reilly and raised 15lb. for an emphatic win at the Galway festival, travelled sweetly throughout and came through to slam Mick Winters’ mare Missuniuted by ten lengths, with eleven-year-old Lough Ferrib third and the flattering Tantalising fourth.

Winning trainer Weld, who was winning his fourth Irish Cesarewitch, “managed to watch the race live” in Toronto (where he saddled Princess Highway in last night’s E P Taylor), according to his son Kris, who added: “This was the plan since Galway and we thought she’d win.