Thurles tips: Coyne can claim first win over fences
Erins Benefit can make up for Listowel disappointment in mares' maiden hurdle. Picture: Healy Racing
The opening race at Thurles is a modest beginners’ chase, confined to horses rated 102 or less over hurdles, and Pat Coyne can use the opportunity to claim a first win over fences.
A promising third to Ask Cory on his first start over fences, on his second try he went for home a long way out, made a bad mistake at the second-last, but kept on as gamely as could be expected to finish third behind Yaiza and one of today’s rivals, Mick Charlie.
