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Gary Carson

Gary Carson

Mans makes all to bring up Mullins/Townend treble

Sun 28th Feb 2021, 16:21

Egality Mans and Paul TownendEgality Mans and Paul Townend
© Photo Healy Racing

Egality Mans made all to run out a convincing winner of the first division of the maiden hurdle at Naas, bringing up a treble on the card for Willie Mullins and Paul Townend.

The Network gelding was making his return from a 430-day absence but was a solid 8/11 shot in the race, run over just shy of two miles.

Paul Townend lined up to make the running and despite diving right when the tapes were raised the seven-year-old soon took them along.

He was asked for an effort going to the last and jumped the final flight big and bold, going on to record a length-and-a-quarter win over French import Pont Du Gard

Mullins said:- “As you can see he looks like a horse that wants to go chasing sooner rather than later but we’ll let him finish out the season novice hurdling.

 

“He definitely needs a fence. He has the build of a chaser and jumps like one. We’ll probably head to Fairyhouse.”

(Quotes by Alan Magee)

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.