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Tom Weekes

Tom Weekes

Carberry delivers a 'push present' of her own!

Fri 22nd Sep 2017, 17:39

Roseriver Has (left, Nina Carberry) and StooshieRoseriver Has (left, Nina Carberry) and Stooshie
© Photo Healy Racing

Nina Carberry followed up yesterday’s winning return at Ballinrobe with another success for trainer Noel Meade at Downpatrick today, as Roseriver Has tested the lady rider’s fitness when gaining a hard fought head win in the concluding Black Horse INH Bumper.

Carberry, who returned from maternity leave with a steering-job ride on Meade’s easy winner Cask Mate at Ballinrobe, was hard at work on Roseriver Has for much of the final quarter mile today, as the pair did battle with Stooshie under Champion Amateur Jockey Jamie Codd.

Stooshie gained a narrow lead in the closing stages but Carberry’s urgings helped the grey gelding rally, along the running rail, for an all-out head win.

A delighted Meade later said "it’s fantastic, she's unreal and going out, had her mind made up she was going round the inside.

“She said he (Roseriver Has) found more when she put the whip down: I’ll have to see it again but she said he was curling up a little bit when she hit him.

"The lad (Cask Mate) won very easily yesterday and I thought this was near enough the same sort of horse although I was a shade worried about the ground.

"He's not too big but he jumps well and will go jumping now.”

Quotes from Michael Graham

About Tom Weekes
A lifelong racing fan, Tom began writing point to point reports in 2002 and has reported for irishracing.com since 2003, when he joined Irish Racing Services - since taken over by the Press Association. Has ridden a point to point winner and won the 2018 Irish Field Naps Table.