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Gary Carson

Gary Carson

Ascot on cards for Icon after easy Navan win

Sat 2nd Jun 2018, 17:01

London Icon and Gerald Mosse London Icon and Gerald Mosse
© Photo Healy Racing

London Icon made all and stretched clear in the closing stages for an impressive victory in the mile conditions race at Navan.

Gerald Mosse took the mount again on Adrian Keatley's charge and bounced out in front on the Elzaam colt.

He was asked to quicken a furlong-and-a-half from home and stayed on strongly inside the final furlong as Full Moon gave chase.

London Icon went on to record a cosy four-and-a-half length victory. The winner had finished seventh in Listed company behind Imaging at Naas last time.

Keatley said:- “I was hoping he was going to do that. We don’t know what happened to him in Naas.

“He just wasn’t happy even pre-race, and we thought we hadn’t run well enough to go for the Guineas even though the Guineas winner (Romanised) was only a length in front of us the same day. It was a good race at Naas.

“Nothing really showed up afterwards but he’s on target now. He’s in the St James’s Palace so that or the Jersey could be an option either.”

(Quotes by Alan Magee)

About Gary Carson
Gary started out as a trainee/assistant journalist with the Sporting Life newspaper and has worked in the racing industry for over 25 years. He has been with the Press Association since 2013 and won the Irish Field Nap Table in 2016. He enjoys working with horses and trained his own horse, Mamaslittlestar, to win a point-to-point in 2019.