Dundalk report: Real Appeal outpoints Freescape

'We wondered if he’d come back, but class is permanent'

Hurricane Helen and Colin Keane win for trainer Chris Timmons at Dundalk. Picture: Healy Racing

Off the track since June, the Ado McGuinness-trained Real Appeal made it ‘two-from-two’ on the polytrack when outpointing front-running Freescape in the KE Builders Race at Dundalk.

Ridden by Ronan Whelan, the seven-year-old tracked the pace before cruising up alongside the leader and asserting in the final furlong to score by three-quarters of a length, with favourite Wigmore Street, on his stable debut for Joseph O’Brien, a well-beaten fifth.