Cullen makes it Lady’s day

The David O’Brien-trained Ballinahow Lady (pictured) cropped up at 10-1 in the featured eight- runner Miceal Fitzgibbon Memorial EBF Mares’ Novice Chase at Thurles yesterday.

Ridden by John Cullen, she got the best of a real battle with Ros Brin in the closing stages to score by half a length.

Ballinahow Lady got in a bit tight to the final fence and was headed by the second halfway up the run-in. But she fought back, for a fiercely determined Cullen, and was nicely on top at the line.