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Gary Carson

Gary Carson

Espoir opens account for Barcoe

Tue 7th May 2024, 15:25

Nouvel Espoir and Dylan Browne McMonagle (nearest)Nouvel Espoir and Dylan Browne McMonagle (nearest)
© Photo Healy Racing

Nouvel Espoir made his second start in handicap company a winning one at Navan this afternoon.

The Jimmy Barcoe-trained gelding had finished mid-division on his return to action at the Curragh 16 days ago and stepped forward to win the 47-65 contest over five furlongs today.

Dylan Browne McMonagle produced the 10/3 shot to challenge inside the final furlong and the Harry Angel gelding edged ahead close home to pip long-time leader Cuban Grey by a neck in a tight three-way finish. Havana Notion who had disputed inside the final furlong, was half a length back in third.

“Dylan gave him a brilliant ride and he came on nicely from the first day,” said Barcoe.

“He's a lovely horse and hopefully he can keep going forward. That was only his fifth run and he learnt a lot from the last day.

“Hopefully he'll progress as the year goes on.”

1st
10/3
Tote €4.34 €1.50
2nd
nk
14/1
€2.30
3rd
0.5L
22/1
€6.40
4th
0.5L
3/1Fav
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.