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Mark Nunan

Mark Nunan

Kalanisi Star an emphatic winner of Gowran bumper

Sat 12th Mar 2022, 18:13

Kalanisi Star is clear Kalanisi Star is clear
© Photo Healy Racing

Kalanisi Star (11/2) ran out a wide-margin winner of the 'Doc's Bumper' Point-To-Point Flat Race.

Bought for £65,000 in December just after winning his second start in point-to-points at Corbeagh House, Johnny Barry’s mount kept close tabs on 4/9 favourite Monbeg Park who made the running. The pair turned for home locked together but the favourite was first to come off the bridle and Kalanisi Star went on over a furlong from home. Monbeg Park was soon running on empty as the winner went away to score by sixteen lengths.

Winning trainer Oliver McKiernan said: "We weren’t sure coming down here. He’d done a few bits at home and he seemed to be going all right.

“He’s a very relaxed horse and we said we’d have a go at a point-to-point bumper.

“He was green but he picked up well on the heavy ground. That will probably be it for this season.”

Quotes from Alan Magee

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.