WHILE I won a few bob on the Tote having had all of €2 each-way on the 40/1 shot, the victory of the Stuart Crawford-trained Lily Du Berlais in the Grade 2 Coolmore N.H. Santiago Irish EBF Mares INH Flat Race at Leopardstown last Sunday saved the beleaguered bookmakers an even worse day than they were already experiencing.

The Crawfords brothers purchased the Shirocco bay for €25,000 as a three-year-old at the 2019 Tattersalls Ireland Derby Sale to which she had been consigned on behalf of her Devon breeder, John Lightfoot, by Juliette Minton’s Mill House Stud.