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Butler gets Darragh Allen off the mark with front-running Cailin Dearg
Cailin Dearg on the way to giving Darragh Allen the first success of his careerCredit: Healy Racing
Darragh Allen had good reason to thank the organisers for rescheduling this meeting as he claimed the riding honours with a double.
He opened his account aboard the Padraig Butler-trained Cailin Dearg in the Bandon Motors & Bandon Co-Op five-year-old-and-upwards adjacent maiden.
Cailin Dearg, runner-up behind recent Warwick bumper winner Nada To Prada on her penultimate effort at Ballindenisk in January, made all the running and the sweet-jumping five-year-old beat newcomer Blustery by five lengths.
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