Joseph O'Brien newcomer makes promising start at Dundalk

Gills Pet
Trainer: Harry Kelly
3^rd, 2m1f mares' maiden hurdle, Clonmel, January 9
This mare is a lightly-raced nine-year-old, more for being a late developer than anything else, but she certainly has ability and might well be capable of winning a race or two.

Winner of one of her four outings in point-to-points, she ran no real race on her track debut in a mares maiden hurdle at Wexford last spring, but her run last week was of a different calibre.

It was not a particularly strong race and she did hit a flat spot early in the straight, but she was close enough to have a chance at that stage, and after getting back on an even keel, she stayed on well again from the last to finish a respectable third.