Bookies breathe massive sigh of relief as monster gamble comes up just shy

Bookmakers breathed a collective sigh of relief on Friday night as an audacious gamble came up just shy.

The first horse to race was So Scottish which was trained by Emmet Mullins. The horse, which went off at 1/4 having been as high as 5/1 at one point, came up agonisingly close losing in a photo-finish to winner Doyenna. The final horse of the Mullins quartet Space Tourist, which was representing Willie and Patrick, took home victory in the fourth leg ensuring that all four horses placed.

"We were all set for last year's [Tramore] festival but then we had to wait a year [due to injury] and she started working very well.

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