Princess Child wins head-bobber to right some wrong at Tipperary

Trainer Joseph O'Brien thought Princess Child "won the hard way". "It was messy and the pace wasn’t strong," said O'Brien

Princess Child and Dylan Browne McMonagle (right) win for owners Janine Byrne and John Curley and trainer Joseph O'Brien from Queen Of Thunder in the Group 3 Coolmore Stud No Nay Never Fairy Bridge Stakes. Pic: Healy Racing

Princess Child was long the bridesmaid in stakes races but she righted that wrong with a doughty display in the Group 3 Coolmore Stud No Nay Never Fairy Bridge Stakes in Tipperary. 

It wasn’t an entirely satisfactory contest, with no great pace early and some interference in the straight affecting some of the leading fancies, but the Joseph O’Brien-trained and Dylan Browne McMonagle-ridden four-year-old is riding the crest of a wave, following her two good runs at Galway, and she picked up strongly to deny Queen Of Thunder in a photo finish.