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Gary Carson

Gary Carson

Beach comes good under Heffernan

Wed 10th Oct 2018, 14:29

Coral Beach and Seamus Heffernan strike the frontCoral Beach and Seamus Heffernan strike the front
© Photo Healy Racing

Ballydoyle filly Coral Beach gained an overdue win on her 11th racecourse outing when taking the opening Kanturk Median Auction Maiden at Cork this afternoon.

The 5/2 favourite had to wait for a gap down the straight in the six-furlong contest and the split came inside the final furlong.

Seamus Heffernan drove his mount into the lead inside the final 100 yards to secure a half length success over the fast finishing Frosty Beach

Coral Beach had been placed on seven occasions before today and had been beaten favourite on six of her runs.

Heffernan said afterwards:- "She has been a little bit disappointing but she works like a Group filly and I wouldn't be surprised if she ended up winning a Group race."

(Quotes by Tom Weekes)

1st
5/2Fav
Tote €2.20 €1.30
2nd
0.5L
6/1
€1.80
3rd
1.5L
25/1
€9.40
4th
0.75L
16/1
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.