Gowran Park report: Queenship gets Jospeh O’Brien off the mark for new season

Under apprentice Mikey Sheehy and, picking up well, Queenship stretched clear to slam fellow 3/1 joint-favourite Elizabethan by five lengths.

Queenship and Mikey Sheehy win the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Fillies Handicap. Picture: Healy Racing.

Joseph O’Brien registered his first success of the 2021 Flat season as Queenship skipped clear to land the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Fillies Handicap in impressive style in Gowran Park.

An Excelebration filly, whose two previous starts were on Dundalk’s polytrack, Queenship swooped down the outside under apprentice Mikey Sheehy and, picking up well, stretched clear to slam fellow 3/1 joint-favourite Elizabethan by five lengths.