Ship sails home to record deserved breakthrough success at Cork

Joseph O'Brien: sent out Ship Of Dreams to take the feature at Cork on WednesdayCredit: Sarah Farnsworth/Goffs

If they handed out prizes for consistency Ship Of Dreams would be top of the pile, and although her Listed Navigation Stakes success was her first at the grade it certainly wasn’t coming out of turn.

Ridden by Wayne Lordan, Ship Of Dreams set off to make all, injected a bit of pace about a furlong from the finish and was always doing enough.

“It is nice to get her head in front. She stays well and the plan was to make the running and it's a nice track to do that on,” Lordan said.

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Brian SheerinReporter

Published on 10 October 2018inReports

Last updated 20:05, 10 October 2018

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