Shamreen provides resurgent Weld with Group 3 winner

Dermot Weld: spying better times on the horizon?

Dermot Weld: eyeing a return to the Curragh next month for the Group 2 Blandford StakesCredit: Patrick McCann

Shamreen continued Dermot Weld's resurgence after a quiet season by his standards when proving much too good for her four rivals in the Group 3 Qatar Airways Royal Whip Stakes.

The Aga Khan-owned four-year-old, with the testing ground she relishes, won easily by three and a quarter lengths under Pat Smullen.

The jockey said: "Ground is the key to Shamreen. It mightn't have been a very strong race but she impressed me and won like a good filly."

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Tony O'HehirRacing Post Reporter

Published on 20 August 2017inReports

Last updated 18:41, 20 August 2017

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