IF ever a filly deserved a change of luck around Galway, it was Princess Child - and she got her just reward when finishing with a flourish to land the €110,000 Irish Stallion Farms EBF Ahonoora Handicap, the final-day feature of the 2025 Galway Festival.

Joseph O’Brien’s 5/1 shot (from as big as 15/2 in the morning) had flashed home for second at this meeting last year in a narrow defeat in the Listed Corrib Fillies Stakes, and she again just failed by a short-head in the same blacktype event here on Thursday.