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Mark Nunan

Mark Nunan

Quick reappearance pays off for Meade's Shadow

Sun 19th Jul 2020, 17:58

In Your Shadow and Sean Flanagan jump the lastIn Your Shadow and Sean Flanagan jump the last
© Photo Healy Racing

There was another winner on the Tipperary card for Gigginstown House Stud when 2/1 favourite In Your Shadow took division one of the MansionBet Support Racing Beginners’ Chase.

Noel Meade ’s grey had been in action on Friday evening at Kilbeggan when he’d been in with every chance in a similar contest only to over-jump and come down at the third last.

He showed no ill-effects from the fall, nor the quick reappearance, here as he was able to pop the last in front before picking up well enough to hold Get Smart by a length and a quarter.

Like the previous Gigginstown-owned winner Mind’s Eye, this 6-y-o is a son of Stowaway and should find his level in handicaps in due course.

Winning rider Sean Flanagan said: "He was probably going very easy when he fell at Kilbeggan but I don't know would he have won as the winner won quite impressively. We did nothing with him since Friday.

"He is actually a good jumper and is very careful but was just unlucky when he fell. He was very careful early-on today and it took me a while to get him into a rhythm.

"It was a middling contest but he has done it nicely."

Additional reporting by Thomas Weekes

About Mark Nunan
Mark has followed racing since he was a teenager and worked for many years as a broadcaster with the Irish version of Racecall. He joined the Press Association in 2019 and is also a contributor to the Racing Post. A native of Kildare, he now lives in Sligo.