John Ryan lands 1,013-1 Sligo treble as Crystabel stars
A 1,013-1 treble at Sligo stunned the market, and Crystabel's 3.5-length win in the mares' hurdle gave John Ryan the afternoon's centrepiece.
John Ryan turned Sligo into a betting shock on Sunday, landing a 1,013-1 treble and using Crystabel’s feature-race success as the anchor for a remarkable afternoon. Daniel King was central to the sequence, and the pair’s surge across the card gave Ryan a result that stood out even on an eight-race meeting with a €211,380.36 daily turnover.
Crystabel took the Racing TV Irish EBF Mares Handicap Hurdle over 2m 1f 90y, worth €17,500 with €10,500 to the winner, and did it in authoritative style. The five-year-old by Crystal Ocean out of London Bells made virtually all at 5-1, then pulled 3.5 lengths clear of Albatala in a seven-runner contest at 2.15, on good ground at Sligo Racecourse. It was a polished front-running performance rather than a scramble, and it supplied the clearest evidence that Ryan’s yard had arrived at the meeting in full working order.
The win carried added weight because Crystabel’s path to the winner’s enclosure had not been straightforward. Ryan and King said she had been beaten a nose in a three-year-old bumper in England before Mark Fleming and Geoff Bruce bought her. She then suffered a heavy fall in a four-year-old maiden hurdle before finally being put right. Ryan also credited King for much of the work behind the scenes, saying: “Daniel is a wonderful rider and has done all the schooling with her.”
Ryan’s treble was completed by Andyourbirdcansing in the closing stages of the card, underlining that this was not a one-off burst but a sustained run through the afternoon. With the Sligo meeting producing eight races and a sizeable turnover, the scale of the stable’s success made the 1,013-1 combination the day’s defining result, while Crystabel’s breakthrough gave the sequence both its most convincing winner and its clearest form pointer for the weeks ahead.
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