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Gary Carson

Gary Carson

Park makes impressive chasing debut

Wed 21st Sep 2022, 17:14

Life In The Park and Rachael Blackmore jump the last Life In The Park and Rachael Blackmore jump the last
© Photo Healy Racing

Life In The Park made an impressive start over fences with a cosy victory in the beginners chase at Listowel.

Rachael Blackmore tracked the front-running Bigz Belief in the two-mile-six contest before sending her mount to the front three from home.

The Henry de Bromhead-trained gelding just had to be shaken up from the penultimate fence to hold off the Gordon Elliott-trained pair of Perfect Attitude and Folcano

The 11/8 favourite was in control on the run-in to post a four-and-a-half length win.

It was a hat-trick for the Walk In The Park gelding, who had won twice over timber in the spring.

Blackmore, in the Minella Indo colours of Barry Maloney, said afterwards:- “It's brilliant, he jumped a little bit right everywhere so that can be improved on but it was a great performance.

“These colours have seen a lot of success and hopefully this lad will get into the winners enclosure plenty.

“He quickened up the straight well and it's great to get that. I think he was bought with a chasing career in mind.

“It's not been an easy road for anyone down in Henry's and we're all still thinking of him.”

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.