Minnie Hauk swept aside her Group 2 rivals to make a winning start to her four-year-old career in the Clem Murphy Memorial Irish EBF Mooresbridge Stakes.<\/p>\n
Six went to post for the 10-furlong Curragh contest and Minnie Hauk proved easy enough to back on her first competitive outing since a low-key sixth in the Breeders’ Cup Turf at Del Mar in early-November.<\/p>\n
However, there was never really a moment of doubt for those who snapped up the 4\/6 SP about Aidan O’Brien’s Frankel filly, who had a brilliant season last year, having won the Cheshire Oaks, Betfred Oaks at Epsom, Irish Oaks and Yorkshire Oaks before finding only Daryz a head too good in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe.<\/p>\n
Monday’s race was teed up perfectly for the odds-on favourite, stablemate companion Edward Hamilton (125\/1) setting a good gallop under Sunday’s 1000 Guineas-winning rider Wayne Lordan and still holding a clear advantage turning into the straight. <\/p>\n
Beset led the charge as the pack looked to close up on the front-runner but it was Minnie Hauk<\/a> who made smooth progress on the outside and she cruised by Edward Hamilton, who held on for second, to score by a length and three-quarters without Moore having to resort to the whip.<\/p>\n More from Sporting LifeSafer gambling<\/p>\n We are committed in our support of safer gambling. Recommended bets are advised to over-18s and we strongly encourage readers to wager only what they can afford to lose.<\/p>\n If you are concerned about your gambling, please call the National Gambling Helpline \/ GamCare<\/a> on 0808 8020 133.<\/p>\n Further support and information can be found at begambleaware.org<\/a> and gamblingtherapy.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minnie Hauk swept aside her Group 2 rivals to make a winning start to her four-year-old career in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-432700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}