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Gary Carson

Gary Carson

Red letter day for O'Sullivan in Killarney opener

Thu 18th Jul 2024, 19:50

 Dynamic Force and Darragh O Sullivan (green and white) Dynamic Force and Darragh O Sullivan (green and white)
© Photo Healy Racing

Darragh O'Sullivan was as cool as a cucumber as he partnered his first winner aboard Dynamic Force for boss Fozzy Stack, at Killarney this afternoon.

The 16-year-old tracked the front-running Rick Dalton in the mile claimer before moving up to dispute two furlongs from home on the 10/3 shot.

He asked his mount to kick on over a furlong from home and was tidy in the closing stages as he kept the Kodiac gelding going for a length-and-a-quarter success over Mindthegap

Dynamic Force was making his third outing for Stack, having won three times in Britain for Robert Cowell.

The winning rider said:- "That was great and thanks to Fozzy and the owners for giving me the ride.

“I'm with Fozzy every morning and everyone, including Joey (Sheridan), Andy (Slattery) and Seamie (Heffernan) have been great to me.

"I had finished second on Cross Border (trained by his father Danny) previously at Naas and today's race went to plan - I made plenty use of him, he was happy and when I got to the front he loved it."

He added:- "I was pony racing for five years, had 14 winners and thanks to Mam and Dad for driving me around the country!

"I'm tall enough so going jumping is a possibility for me."

There were successful claims for Dynamic Force (for E8,000) by Ado McGuinness and Chou Chou (E4,000) by Kenneth James Mullen.

(Quotes by Tom Weekes)

1st
10/3
Tote €4.34 €1.40
2nd
1.25L
20/1
€3.90
3rd
1.25L
40/1
€7.50
4th
1.25L
12/1
bf
2.75L
5/4Fav
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.