FRESH from a fruitful winter stint in Australia, Shane Foley hit the ground running to begin the 2025 Irish flat season with a first success in the €100,000 Nua Healthcare Irish Lincolnshire on Tony Martin’s Orandi.

Any number of runners held chances approaching the business end of the Curragh’s curtain-raising feature, and the 10/1 shot, flanked by Sheila Lavery’s Kortez Bay, drew clear when it mattered most. Foley was at his strongest on the Ted Murtagh and Bertie Hourihane-owned seven-year-old, who has proved an inspired purchase at just over €19,000 out of a French claimer in June 2022.