TAMARIND LED home an Aidan O’Brien one-two in the Group Three Ladbrokes Give Thanks Stakes at Cork yesterday. The Sadler’s Wells filly only broke her maiden last month and was a 20 to 1 chance in the hands of Colm O’Donoghue, with Perfect Truth at 4 to 1 and the pick of Johnny Murtagh the shortest of the three Ballydoyle runners in the market.
Plenty had chances approaching the final furlong but it was Tamarind who saw it out best to hold Perfect Truth by one and a half lengths. Irish Oaks disappointment Beauty O’ Gwaun was third but Beach Bunny never got involved.
Latin Love (9 to 2) added a valuable Listed-race success to her CV when making all the running to take the Platinum Stakes over a mile.
Oh Goodness Me, who had performed with credit in both the English and Irish Oaks, challenged inside the final furlong but never looked like getting on terms.
O’Donoghue had been her intended partner but was replaced by Wayne Lordan when his mount, Smart Coco, was declared a non-runner.
Winning trainer David Wachman said: “The Blandford Stakes at the Curragh is an obvious target. My horses had been a little under the weather recently but hopefully they have come out of that now.”
Trainer Joanna Morgan recorded an across-the-card 506 to 1 treble when Mutadarek’s (11 to 2) win in the Newmarket Handicap added to her brace of winners already achieved at Naas.
Mutadarek, a son of Machiavellian, was held up towards the rear by Pat Smullen, eventually making his way through the field to lead over a furlong out, before scoring a three-and-a-half-length win over Well Insured.
Morgan’s two winners at Naas were Gypsie Queen (12 to 1) and Show Blessed (5 to 1).
Nina Carberry partnered her 18th win of the season when steering Charlie Swan’s Start Me Up (2 to 1) to an easy seven-length win in the concluding Glantane Flat Race at Cork.