First blacktype win for Zarinsk

Two-year-old Juddmonte homebred Zarinsk took her first stakes win on Saturday in the Listed Ingabelle Stakes at Leopardstown.

Taken from the Thoroughbred Daily News, 11th September 2022:

Irish Champions Weekend got under way with Leopardstown's €100,000 Listed Ingabelle Stakes over seven furlongs, which went the way of Ger Lyons and Colin Keane for a second straight edition after Zarinsk posted a two and a half-length success from Library.

Zarinsk, who backed up a May debut success at the Curragh with a fourth in the Gr.2 Airlie Stud Stakes back there the following month, was unable to feature at the business end of July's Gr.3 Silver Flash Stakes over this course and distance when stumbling badly at the start and gained compensation with a pillar-to-post
victory here. Breaking sharply to seize immediate control, she was shaken up when threatened by her closest pursuer Library passing the quarter-mile marker and kept on strongly under mild urging thereafter to hold that rival with plenty to spare for a career high.

"Our fillies have been pretty precocious this year, they have all won their maidens well and she is still a work-in-progress," said trainer Ger Lyons. "Colin [Keane] is quite confident about her getting a mile, I'll have to talk to the owners and I could see us putting her away until next year. We do a lot of work in the stalls with our horses at home and our modus [operandi] is don't take away any advantage. Wherever they bounce you ride them from and he's kept it simple. She's not overly big, but has a lovely big stride and has a lot of maturing to do."

Keane added:  "We would have taken a lead, but we got it on our own terms and we went nice, even fractions. I thought we picked up well from the bottom of the straight, she ran through the line and I couldn't pull her up. She's a lovely actioned filly, her stride is very long and she's a very willing filly."