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Gary Carson

Gary Carson

Cool collects again in nursery

Wed 14th Dec 2022, 15:03

Coolcalmncollected and Colin Keane win Coolcalmncollected and Colin Keane win
© Photo Healy Racing

Coolcalmncollected defied top-weight to record back-to-back victories in the nursery at Dundalk this afternoon.

The Ciaran Murphy-trained gelding had opened his account over six furlongs a fortnight ago and struck again over course and distance.

Colin Keane got a nice lead on the son of Ardad as Fast Trek made the running.

That rival veered left passing the two pole and 16/5 shot Coolcalmncollected hit the front inside the final furlong, going on to record a three-parts-of-a-length win over the fast finishing Lisieux

Murphy said: "I'm very happy with that. We felt he had improved and, speaking to Colin beforehand, we thought he needed to to win that.

"He's a horse that has been progressing all year. He has taken time and is a very big horse, but a lovely horse for the future we think.

"We've looked through the stats and not too many horses have tried to do that (juvenile carrying 10st 4lb). We know he is a big horse, he is well able to carry the weight so we said we'd have a go. Our horses are running well up here and now is the time to do it.

"I think Colin was impressed with him today."

(Quotes by Michael Graham)

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.