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Gary Carson

Gary Carson

Western powers to Victory in mares hurdle

Mon 16th Sep 2019, 17:35

Western VictoryWestern Victory
© Photo Healy Racing

Western Victory powered to success in the Mares Hurdle at Galway this afternoon when making every post a winning one. Great White Shark was sent to post the 4/6 favourite in the two-mile-five but her jumping let her down.

She couldn't make any impression from the second last as the Declan Queally-trained Western Victory galloped on strongly.

Sean O'Keeffe kept his mount up to her work in the closing stages as the 11/4 shot went on to record an 11-length win. Awayinthewest eventually stayed on to claim second.

The winner, backed from 6/1 this morning, was last seen finishing tailed off in Grade One company at Fairyhouse in April.

She had chased home Honeysuckle in Grade 3 company at Fairyhouse back in January.

She was making her first start for Queally today and his son and namesake said:- "That was a very good performance and Sean's seven pounds helped in that ground.

"She'll probably get a hike for that so we'll see what the handicapper does but there's a Listed mares' hurdle at Gowran in two weeks as she didn't have a majorly hard race there.

"Her form behind Honeysuckle last season was decent and she had won around here before. We have her 10 weeks."

(Quotes by Tom Weekes)

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.