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Gary Carson

Gary Carson

Quick double for Manning & Bolger with Baire

Fri 7th Jun 2013, 19:11

Cul Baire comes home in front under Kevin Manning from Defence Of Duress & Frankie Dettori on the outsideCul Baire comes home in front under Kevin Manning from Defence Of Duress & Frankie Dettori on the outside
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Cul Baire put himself in the shop window when running out a convincing winner of the 1m6f handicap at Leopardstown.

Kevin Manning and Jim Bolger combined to record a quick double as the King's Best gelding recorded a two-and-a-half length success.

The 8/1 winner kicked for home turning in and kept on strongly in the closing stages to land the spoils.

11/2 favourite Defence Of Duress under Frankie Dettori, gave chase but never looked like pegging back the winner.

Cul Baire was showing nice improvement from his debut effort at the Curragh last month and Bolger revealed afterwards that the five-year-old is available for purchase.

“He's been for sale the whole time and has even been schooled – he jumps like a buck. Nobody has bought him yet,” said Bolger.

“He's been on the transfer list since he won his bumper.”

The winner could head straight for the Newmarket sales now and Bolger added: “We'll leave a bit for the next man or women. He'll make a high class hurdler.”

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.