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Mark Nunan

Mark Nunan

Espion De Chenet & Treacy a winning team

Fri 29th Oct 2021, 17:25

Espion De Chenet  and Ryan Treacy clear the last in front  Espion De Chenet and Ryan Treacy clear the last in front
© Photo Healy Racing

The progressive Espion De Chenet (5/1) landed his fourth win over fences in the last eleven months when taking the Ladbrokes Handicap Chase.

Regular partner Ryan Treacy tracked the leaders on the French-bred 7-year-old before producing him to lead at the second-last. From there he went away to beat 14/1 chances Samurai Cracker and Weihnachts by a length and a quarter and two and three quarter lengths.

The 16/5 favourite Bentham collided with a rival when jumping the first and unseated Conor McNamara.

The winner got off the mark over fences at Naas last December off a mark of 90 and took this off 109.

Winning trainer Louise Lyons said: "He jumped brilliant today. He just loves running and being on the track.

"He tries his heart out and turns up every day, today was class.

"We are thinking of going to Aintree for the next meeting (next month), this week we just had a mad thought. My parents live nearby (to Aintree) and it would be lovely to go and have a runner. I used to hunt all around there.

"Ryan (Treacy) will ride him in Aintree. We could claim off him but he knows him inside out and gets on so well with him."

Quotes from Michael Graham

About Mark Nunan
Mark has followed racing since he was a teenager and worked for many years as a broadcaster with the Irish version of Racecall. He joined the Press Association in 2019 and is also a contributor to the Racing Post. A native of Kildare, he now lives in Sligo.