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Tom Weekes

Tom Weekes

Turn Up The Beat provides Barry with a first flat winner

Wed 26th Jun 2024, 18:37

Turn Up The Beat and Wayne Hassett (yellow cap)Turn Up The Beat and Wayne Hassett (yellow cap)
© Photo Healy Racing

Co Cork trainer David Barry registered a first flat winner today, as his three-year-old Turn Up The Beat scored a 25/1 success in Naas' Kildare Chamber Handicap, under Wayne Hassett.

Carrying just 8st4lbs, the Outstrip-gelding arrived from rear-division to lead inside the final furlong, holding runner-up Ginormous by a half-length, with slowest-starting but fastest-finisher Amrican In Paris filling third.

Rathcormac-based Barry had previously trained four national hunt winners and today his brother Ronan Barry said “we thought a bit of him as a two-year-old, he was very fast but he didn't stay. Pat Murphy had him in the past and he did a great job with him.

“We're national hunt people, we've been lobbing away with him on deep sand at home and I think it has stood to him, as he toughed it out. I thought he might need the run to sharpen him, but he's a grand horse and I'm not shocked he has won.

“I thought for his first run over five (furlongs) he was good.”

Quotes from Gary Carson

1st
25/1
Tote €26.00 €6.30
2nd
0.5L
6/1
€1.80
3rd
nose
11/1
€3.70
4th
0.5L
7/1
bf
1L
5/1Fav
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.