I Don't Get It and Gearoid Brouder © Photo Healy Racing
Front-runner I Don't Get It landed the spoils in a dramatic finish to the Tote Handicap Hurdle at Downpatrick.
Neill McCluskey 's charge took up his usual position at the headed of affairs in the extended two-mile-one contest but was pressed from the third last by Tipp For Mac
That rival got the final flight wrong, however, unshipping Rachael Blackmore.
I Don't Get It, who had hung left throughout and ran around approaching two out, then veered badly left coming to the foot of the hill.
The 6/1 shot (12s this morning) found plenty though in the closing stages, for Gearoid Brouder, to hold the late run of Warm In Gorey by a length-and-a-quarter.
McCluskey said: "He's a serious jumper. I was going to run him over fences, but I thought I would give him one run over hurdles.
"He has been off since August and has never left home, I went to Brian Hamilton's twice I think. That's all he has done.
"He's an honest horse. He kept finding and hanging!
"That's his second win here and that horse has some form, he has won me a lot of money and he has only won two races in his life.
"We have three or four young horses ready and a few nice horses."
On his horses always being ridden prominently, he added: "We are a small yard and if I put my horses in the middle, I don't know where they would end up! They are used to going on their own at home."
(Quotes by Michael Graham)
