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Gary Carson

Gary Carson

Cooper comes late on Symphony

Tue 4th Sep 2012, 17:13

Owners Thomas and Keith Fetherston with Bryan Cooper and Rare Symphony after her winOwners Thomas and Keith Fetherston with Bryan Cooper and Rare Symphony after her win
© Photo Healy Racing

Rare Symphony lunged late to land the spoils in the mares handicap hurdle at Downpatrick.

Front-runner Ta Blazes looked to have done enough after keeping on gamely up the hill.

But Bryan Cooper got a good tune from Rare Symphony (9/2) in the closing stages to sneak up the inner and nab that rival for neck succcess.

The Paul Magnier-trained mare was gaining a deserved success have finished runner-up on her two previous starts.

“I like them to win like that and not by ten lengths as the last winner I had got 10lb!” said Magnier afterwards.

“She might run again Sunday at the Curragh and she probably needed that a small bit.

“I need a few of them as we've been out of action. I just have six horses in training so I have to make them count.

“I've only had one horse run on the Flat this summer but had nine jumpers and five of them have finished in the first two.”

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.