Star Girls Aalmal off the mark in style as Chris Hayes lands Dundalk treble

Take My Hand and Wesley Joyce (left) win the Irish Injured Jockeys Handicap. Picture: Healy Racing

Sixth on her debut in listed company six weeks ago, the Henry de Bromhead-trained Star Girls Aalmal proved the undoubted star of Wednesday’s action on Dundalk’s polytrack, producing an impressive display to justify 6/4 favouritism in the Irish Stallion Farms EBNF 2-Y-0 Maiden and providing jockey Chris Hayes with the first leg of a sparkling treble.

The Elzaam filly, a half-sister to Create Belief, was in front after a furlong and, pressed by market rival Trent turning for home, she kept picking-up and, in the final furlong, stretched clear to score by four and three-quarter lengths from 86-rated Brostaigh with Trent in third.