Murtagh off the mark with Dalkova

Johnny Murtagh trained his first winner at the Galway Festival when Dalkova turned over hot pot, Dermot Weld’s Trusted, in the Listed Arthur Guinness EBF Corrib Fillies Stakes yesterday.

Trusted went off at 8-11 and they were very tight odds for a contest of this nature. Dalkova was in front from the start, with Trusted arriving to challenge approaching the home turn.

Murtagh’s five-year-old, however, was in no mood to go down without a fight and kept pulling it out for Niall McCullagh.