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Gary Carson

Gary Carson

Danny doubles up with Best

Thu 4th Mar 2021, 17:04

West Is Best and Danny Mullins (nearest) beat MarshalledWest Is Best and Danny Mullins (nearest) beat Marshalled
© Photo Healy Racing

West Is Best powered home on the run-in to land a quick fire double for Danny Mullins at Clonmel this afternoon.

The pilot employed similar tactics as he had done on Cluan Dara half an hour earlier, plotting a wide course and holding his mount up in the two-mile-seven contest.

Bill Lanigan's charge made ground up on the home bend but was ridden along in fifth before the second last.

The Westerner gelding stayed on to press the leaders at the final fence and got to the front on the run-in to secure a length-and-a-half win over 5/2 favourite Marshalled

West Is Best, a 7/1 shot, had been well held on his last couple of outings but had slipped to a mark of 92 today, 3lb higher than the rating he had won off over timber.

Lanigan said:- “He’s owned by a great friend of mine Hugh Laing and that’s his second win for us.

 

“Danny gave him a great ride and came out for the better ground. He’s a very lucky rider for us and he’s the thinking man’s jockey.

 

“He handles that ground. He had a bit of trouble with his muscles but we seem to have got him right now.

 

“We bred him ourselves and have more of the family at home. We’ll probably look for something around St Patricks Day maybe at Limerick.”

(Quotes by Alan Magee)

1st
7/1
Tote €7.80 €2.60
2nd
1.5L
5/2Fav
€1.60
3rd
2.25L
18/1
€3.90
4th
21L
9/1
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.