GALEOLA will also be of interest wherever she goes next. Sheila Lavery’s filly looked very good in winning the finale at Leopardstown on Thursday. The winning time was slow, the slowest of the evening, but that’s because Donnacha O’Brien rode a canny race on Kangaroo Valley from the front, stacking the field up all the way down the back straight.

Several members of the chasing pack raced more keenly than ideal, including Galeola herself, but Robbie Colgan was alive to the sedate pace, he allowed his filly move gradually up on the outside, not too far off the leader. While she was unavoidably three wide going around the home turn, she was in the right position for when the inevitable sprint for home began, and she showed a really smart turn of foot to settle the race as a contest quite quickly.