Jessica Harrington vows to learn from Galway Races mix-up: 'We'll ensure it never happens again'

'We are particularly sorry for the owners of both fillies but also to anyone else who was impacted by our mistake'
Jessica Harrington vows to learn from Galway Races mix-up: 'We'll ensure it never happens again'

Trainer Jessica Harrington: 'We are particularly sorry for the owners of both fillies but also to anyone else who was impacted by our mistake'. Picture: INPHO/Ryan Byrne

Jessica Harrington has vowed her team “will learn from” the error which saw the wrong horse run in a two-year-old maiden at Galway.

Alizarine appeared to have run out an impressive winner in Tuesday’s COLM QUINN BMW Irish EBF Fillies Maiden on her racecourse bow, but it later transpired that three-year-old Aurora Princess had mistakenly run in the juvenile’s place.

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