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Gary Carson

Gary Carson

Gal getting the hang of things

Thu 4th May 2017, 19:16

Mystery Gal beats Manomine Mystery Gal beats Manomine
© Photo Healy Racing

Mystery Gal held the renewed challenge of Manomine to land the spoils in the four-year-old plus handicap over just under ten furlongs at Clonmel.

Chris Hayes produced his mount to head front-runner Manomine two furlongs from home and looked to have matters in control passing the furlong pole.

The long-time leader stayed on again in the closing stages, however, pushing Paul Deegan's charge to a half length margin at the line.

The 6/1 winner was making her fourth outing of the season and was a close third on her last run at Limerick.

"She has some bits and pieces of form and ran very well the last day but is still probably a bit raw,” said Deegan.

"She can go from a mile to 1m4f, is getting the hang of things now and I think there's another race in her. We'll go for something similar next."

(Quotes by Tom Weekes)

1st
6/1
Tote €7.20 €1.90
2nd
0.5L
25/1
€3.90
3rd
1.25L
12/1
€3.90
4th
0.75L
5/1
bf
1.25L
10/3Fav
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.