Picture: Ben Coen has Cheeky Wink in control to beat Total Look in her second career start
The Barnane Stud-homebred three-year-old filly Cheeky Wink, trained by Johnny Murtagh and owned in partnership with Owen Heffer of Hollywoodbets, runs in the Gr 3 Al Shira’aa Racing “Mutamakina” Stakes over a mile at Leopardstown on Sunday (15H25 SA Time).
Cheeky Wink is by Masar (New Approach) out of the grey South African-bred Dynasty mare Smiling Blue Eyes, who won both the Gr 3 Fillies Mile and the Gr 2 Gauteng Fillies Guineas, trained by Sean Tarry.
Cheeky Wink was unplaced in her only run as a two-year-old, but won her reappearance .
She was stepped up to a mile and one-and-a-half furlongs for the latter event, a Maiden at Gowran Park run in soft going.
Johnny Murtagh’s young stable jockey Ben Coen kept her going well to win by half-a-length after she had run on well from midfield.
Coen is aboard again on Sunday.
Cheeky Wink’s forecast odds with At The Races is 10/1.
The favourite forecast at evens is the Paddy Twomey-trained One Look, a Gleneagles filly who has won both of her starts.
