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Gary Carson

Gary Carson

Downey doubles up on Satchel

Fri 6th Oct 2017, 20:56

Beau Satchel & Robbie Downey won for The Total Recall Racing Club & trainer Ado McGuinness Beau Satchel & Robbie Downey won for The Total Recall Racing Club & trainer Ado McGuinness
© Photo Healy Racing

Robbie Downey claimed both divisions of the apprentice handicap at Dundalk this evening when the veteran Beau Satchel bounced back to winning ways.

Ado McGuinness' charge was produced to lead a furlong from home and kept on strongly in the closing stages to post a length-and-three-quarters victory.

The seven-year-old was gaining his eighth career win and his first since scoring at Leopardstown last October.

“He was dropping in class, and we put the cheek pieces on tonight. He’s in again at Limerick tomorrow but whether he goes or not is another thing. He handled the surface well enough so we’ll probably campaign him away up here.”

(Quotes by Alan Magee)

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.