Punters find Spirituality

Teenager Luke Dempsey has quickly emerged as the apprentice find of the season and rode his third winner in the last ten days when the gambled-on Spirituality got up close home to foil favourite Captain Joy in the Crowne Plaza Race & Stay Package Handicap in Dundalk last night.

Dempsey, who rode his first winner in Navan last week, extricated the Tommy Carmody trained filly (backed from 6/1 to 7/2) from behind a wall of horses to follow-up her maiden win over course and distance last week.

Mick Hussey, narrowly denied on Captain Joy, had earlier ridden his first winner for Aidan O’Brien when Rain God recouped Leopardstown losses in the two-year-old colts’ maiden, beating dead-heaters Tiger stripes and Breccbennach by three-quarters of a length.