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Gary Carson

Gary Carson

Ahern and Aherne team up again in Ladies hurdle

Thu 21st Feb 2019, 17:15

Chosen Hour and Sheila Ahern Chosen Hour and Sheila Ahern
© Photo Healy Racing

Sheila Ahern teamed up with Sean Aherne to land the ladies handicap hurdle at Thurles for the second year running. Chosen Hour did the business for the pairing this time when running out a convincing four-length winner of the two-mile contest.

The Well Chosen gelding was prominent throughout and hit the front before the third last.

He galloped on strongly from before the final flight to land the spoils at odds of 7/2. It was his second success from two runs since joining the Conna handler.

"He had good bumper runs on good ground so I was happy enough coming here. He is going the right way and we're happy enough at the moment,” said the winning trainer.

"He proved in Limerick he could handle soft ground so that's handy and we'll go for something similar next and he seems to be ok over two miles.

"It's a nice tonic for Maggie Erangey who owns the horse but who hasn't been well recently."

The pair had won last year's renewal with Analyse That.

(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.