PROMISE THE UNDOUBTED STAR AT SHELBOURNE

Ian Fortune

Aussie Promise may have been sent to traps an 8-1 chance to win Friday’s feature at Shelbourne, the final of the Book Your Trials Online A2 525, but she was in a league of her own as she raced to a facile success in the €2,000 contest.

Jeannette MacKenzie has had some wonderful sport with her Ballyhimikin Jet/ Geneva Holly litter but Aussie Promise in the most prolific with five wins. This was clearly a career best display from the August ’23 whelp.

Breaking smartly on the inside of the track,. She was in front from the opening stride. Fastest semi-final winner Dundrum George looked an ominous figure when turning second but Aussie Promise was on a mission. Pulling further and further clear, she would eventually go on to win by seven and a half lengths in a brilliant 28.70 on a track conservatively rated .20 slow. Itsnotanoption came through for second with Dundrum George a further length back in third.