WEXFORD, 8 August — The Irish leg of the Saturday afternoon opened with a bang. Kingside Lady, a 33/1 outsider ridden by Alex Harvey, won the Wexford Fillies Maiden Hurdle (14:15), leading home a finish that read 33/1, 7/1, 14/1 — Baby Pearl second under Darragh O’Keeffe and Casheldale Lass third for Conor Smithers — in a result that tore up the formbook before the tea-time card had properly begun.
The Result
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12 ran. Distance: 2m 190y.
The Race Story
Four-year-old fillies’ maiden hurdles are where reputations go to be tested, and twelve of them over two miles at Wexford produced the kind of result that makes the exotic pools pay for the week. Harvey’s mount saw off a field that included runners from the powerful Willie Mullins yard, with the first three home all returned at double-figure odds — a combination that will have rewarded almost nobody but rewarded them very well indeed.
Tell The Boys, the morning preview’s pick under Kevin Sexton for a winning start over flights, and Sonas, the each-way suggestion, were both missing from the frame entirely when it mattered.
Tipster Accountability
Richard Gore’s verdict in the Wexford preview — “Tell The Boys to make a winning start over flights, with Sonas the each-way play” — produced neither a win nor a place from the two selections. The saving grace: the site’s advertised 45/1 Wexford four-fold does not start until the 14:50, so the accumulator survives this result unscathed. None of the four tracked ledger tipsters published Irish selections today; their table sits in the day-one review.
Looking Ahead
Now it gets serious. Ocean Murphy (14:50) opens the four-fold, before the banker of the entire Irish day: Nadia’s Boy (15:25), the Willie Mullins hotpot at 5/6 under Paul Townend in the beginners chase — “the Mullins-Townend axis needs no introduction,” as the preview put it. If the banker goes in, the acca lives; the full card is in the Wexford preview.