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Gary Carson

Gary Carson

Title leader Foley bags double

Mon 20th Jul 2020, 20:09

Cliara and Shane Foley (centre) beats For Everyone (right) with Nightly Wailing (left) Cliara and Shane Foley (centre) beats For Everyone (right) with Nightly Wailing (left)
© Photo Healy Racing

Shane Foley, setting the pace in the jockeys title race, moved on to 39 winners for the season when Cliara gave him a double on the card at Ballinrobe tonight.

John McConnell 's charge went off 3/1 favourite in the first division of the mile-and-a-half handicap and just prevailed in a tight finish.

The Morpheus filly lunged to take a narrow lead inside the final furlong and just held For Everyone by a head at the line. Allora Yeats also finished off well, another half-length back in third.

“"She had a very good run in Leopardstown and we freshened her up for this and we had the right man on board," said McConnell.

 

"She was a cheap filly and it's great to get a second win out of her as the owners are good people.”

(Quotes by Eamonn Murphy)

1st
3/1Fav
Tote €3.60 €1.60
2nd
hd
13/2
€2.40
3rd
0.5L
7/2
€1.10
4th
0.5L
33/1
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.