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Gary Carson

Gary Carson

Madam gets valuable brackets

Sun 4th May 2014, 16:32

Madam Mo Madam Mo
© Photo Healy Racing

The pregnant Madam Mo gained an all-important win when just getting home by a neck in the mile-and-a-half maiden at Sligo.

Patrick Prendergast's charge had been placed on seven previous occasions and had to dig deep to gain her breakthrough success.

Connor King produced her to lead a furlong out but front-runner Well Hello rallied well to give the 5/6 favourite a scare.

“She's in foal to Holy Roman Emperor so that was very important and she deserved her day,” said Prendergast.

“If she gets dropped, it's unusual when they win but it does happen, or is left alone we might try a handicap.

“Obviously we're against the clock with the 120 days and she's less than that now, but really that's job done.

“She's very attractive but has been hard to win with.”

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.