McGoldrick shines on Show

Cara McGoldrick gave Shantou Show a confident ride as she partnered her first 'track' winner in the concluding Boardsmill Sires Maiden Hunters Chase at Downpatrick.

The Antrim native has won three opens on Woodbrook Boy 'between the flags' this season and was having just her second outing under rules.

She held Shantou Show up out the back in the two-mile-seven contest before taking closer order over the third last.

Sean McParlan 's charge jumped on at the penultimate fence and only had to be shaken up to assert on the run-in for a comprehensive 13-length success.

The 13/2 winner (11/8 favourite this morning) only made his debut this year at the age of seven and had landed an older horse maiden at Kirkistown on his second outing in February.

McParlan said: "That's unreal, that is Cara's first winner on the track and she has three point-to-point winners.

"We couldn't get a jockey to ride him yesterday with all the point-to-points on today. We had no jockey at 12 o'clock yesterday.

"She worked up in Wilson Dennison's along with Noel (McParlan, son) and that's how he knew her. She is now working for the Doyles in Wexford.

"He must be class, that's only his third run. We thought he was a right horse (before his point-to-point victory), we got him off Paddy Turley. Paddy always thought he was a right horse.

"I didn't think he would handle the ground, to be honest. I thought he would want better ground. He destroyed them. I'm just delighted.

"We will probably be looking at another hunter chase on the track next."

(Quotes by Michael Graham)