Better Days Ahead for Dara McGill as 'gorgeous horse' shows his class
Sunday, Tipperary at Lisronagh
Just one day after returning from a near four-month spell on the sidelines through injury, Dara McGill was back in the winner’s enclosure for the second time in his career when he steered Warren Ewing’s newcomer Better Days Ahead to take the Boomerang.ie Horse & Country Store four-year-old geldings’ maiden.
A €47,000 purchase by the winning trainer last summer, the Milan gelding made his move to the front around the home bend from where he could not be reeled in by the €145,000 store purchase Farnoge.
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