MENTIONED briefly in the Pony Tales column of this week’s paper, Donaghadee trainer Clare Cannon paid a successful, if time-consuming, visit to Roscommon on Monday evening as she saddled her father Geoff’s Innamorare to win the seven-furlong claiming maiden.

This was a first success for the three-year-old Intense Focus filly who was bred by Jock O’Connor out of the unraced Bachelor Duke mare Duchess Dee.