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Gary Carson

Gary Carson

English strikes at Cork again with Tribal

Sat 26th Mar 2016, 14:50

Tribal Path & Donagh O'Connor lead them homeTribal Path & Donagh O'Connor lead them home
© Photo Healy Racing

Tribal Path sprang a 25/1 shock in the Newmarket Handicap at Cork when producing a fine front-running performance.

Donagh O'Connor soon had his mount prominent and he led after a couple of furlongs in the seven-furlong contest.

The Damian English-trained gelding stuck on gamely in the closing stages to post a two-length success as Beechmount Whisper gave chase inside the final furlong.

The winner was adding to two wins gained on the all-weather at Dundalk this year already.

"I was hoping he'd do that as he was racing off 61 today compared to his all-weather mark of 68 and Donagh was taking another seven off,” said English.

"I had this race in mind for him since January as I won it last year (with Cash Or Casualty), knew he'd handle the ground and I thought Tribal Path was a similar type of horse."

He added: "I have 13 in training for the summer with four of them two year olds. I'm looking forward to the summer now."

(Quotes by Thomas Weekes)

1st
25/1
Tote €35.40 €5.10
2nd
2L
9/1
€2.60
3rd
3.75L
14/1
€3.30
4th
1.75L
9/2Fav
€1.20
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.