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Gary Carson

Gary Carson

Harrington claims bumper with Town

Sun 20th Dec 2015, 16:08

New To This Town New To This Town
© Photo Healy Racing

New To This Town stayed on nicely in the closing stages to make a winning debut for Jessica Harrington in the concluding bumper at Thurles this afternoon.

50/1 shot Louie The Second looked set to cause a shock when kicking for home turning in but faded inside the final furlong and was collared.

Kate Harrington produced New To This Town to land the spoils and the Milan gelding was chased home by Articulum as Louie The Second finished third.

The Willie Mullins-trained Merry Night was sent off the well backed 8/11 favourite but never challenged back in fifth.

"He is a beautiful horse, he really is, but I thought he'd be much too green,” said Harrington.

"He never got to run in a schooling race and while this isn't an easy place to start, I felt it might be too buzzy for him at Leopardstown. He was looking around at everything today.

"I'll let the dust settle and he'll run in a winners' bumper next. He's well schooled and also jumps super."

(Quotes by Thomas Weekes)

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.