Collen Beag doubles up

The four-day August festival at Tramore drew to a close yesterday afternoon with a series of doubles, highlighted by the second victory at the meeting for Collen Beag, who was an impressive winner here on Friday night.

The David O’Brien-trained mare contested the Richard Power Private Client Betting Handicap Hurdle, for which she was sent off an easy-to-back 4-1 chance.

Caridadi and Do Na Paisti made rapid progress to lead with three to jump and they looked to have it between them at that point. However, the in-form Collen Beag, who made a mistake at the third-last, responded to Jonathan Burke’s urgings to lead at the last, and pulled out plenty to see off Do Na Paisti by half a length. It was the lightly raced mares’ third victory of her career, all of which have come at this track.