Siskin team can strike gold again with lightly raced filly

Leopardstown: racing on ThursdayCredit: Patrick McCann (racingpost.com/photos)

Red Gerry
7.35 Leopardstown
1pt win

Top apprentice Andrew Slattery, who brought his score for the year to 26 with a double at Gowran Park on Wednesday night, is a significant booking for the Noel Meade-trained Red Gerry in the Grant Thornton Apprentice Handicap.

The Canford Cliffs gelding boasts one particularly interesting piece of form, having chased home the Aidan O'Brien-trained Blenheim Palace at Navan in May. The winner, a brother to Group 1 winners Churchill and Clemmie, finished second in the Derrinstown Derby Trial on his next start and has also managed another Group 3 second at the Curragh.

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Alan SweetmanFeatures writer

Published on 14 August 2019inHorse racing tips

Last updated 09:13, 15 August 2019

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