AFTER beginning her career with two distinctly promising runs in defeat, Lougher produced a nice display to account for two previous winners in the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Median Auction Race for trainer Richard O’Brien.

Just over two weeks after taking on the potentially top-class Cayenne Pepper at Tipperary, Lougher was dropping in grade for this one-mile race but the two-year-old daughter of Teofilo still faced a stiff assignment against several capable types.