Bolger maintains winning formula

Einsteins Folly gave trainer Jim Bolger back-to-back wins in the listed Lenabane Stakes in Roscommon last night when, produced between horses inside the final furlong by Kevin Manning, he possessed too much pace for three-year-old Belisarius and Ebeyina.

In a race dominated by the classic generation in recent season, including Bolger’s Bunairgead last year, Einsteins Folly came from well off the pace under a well-judged ride to triumph by a length and a half, a solid performance in his first crack at a mile and a half.

On a night which produced 24 ground-related withdrawals (ground conditions were ‘good to firm; in contrast to the ‘good to yielding’ advertised at declaration time on Sunday), eight went to post for the highlight of Roscommon’s flat season.