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Mark Nunan

Mark Nunan

Cromwell and Moore straight in at number one

Fri 30th Aug 2019, 21:02

Top Of The Charts and Jonathan Moore jump the last Top Of The Charts and Jonathan Moore jump the last
© Photo Healy Racing

Dual handicap chase winner Top Of The Charts (5/2 fav) availed of a much lower rating over the smaller obstacles by taking the Kerry Group Handicap Hurdle for in-form pair Gavin Cromwell and Jonathan Moore.

Previously a fine fifth over fences at Galway, here he was three and a half lengths to the good at the line from Zagnzig (16/1), with Siempre Amigos (25/1) and Boston Babe (33/1) completing the placings.

After wins at Wexford and Perth earlier in the summer, the Great Pretender five-year-old is very much paying his way this season.

"He ran a cracker in Galway in the Blazers and missed the second last and the last, said the winning trainer Cromwell.

"Off that he was entitled to do that today. He's been a great fun horse and he's a nice horse.

"He's in Clonmel on Thursday but we'll see what the handicapper does, he doesn't have to go there."

Additional reporting by Michael Graham

1st
5/2Fav
Tote €2.00 €1.10
2nd
3.5L
16/1
€5.10
3rd
2.75L
33/1
€17.70
4th
1.5L
25/1
€8.40
About Mark Nunan
Mark has followed racing since he was a teenager and worked for many years as a broadcaster with the Irish version of Racecall. He joined the Press Association in 2019 and is also a contributor to the Racing Post. A native of Kildare, he now lives in Sligo.