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Gary Carson

Gary Carson

Lavery looks good in opener

Tue 18th Oct 2016, 14:30

Sir John Lavery Sir John Lavery
© Photo Healy Racing

Sir John Lavery strode clear inside the final furlong to open his account in impressive fashion in the opening mile maiden at Gowran Park this afternoon.

The Ballydoyle colt had shaped with plenty of promise when third on his debut at the Curragh eight days ago and confirmed that with an authoritative display.

Despite missing the kick slightly the 8/13 shot was soon in mid-division under Seamus Heffernan.

He was asked to take closer order passing two pole and went on over a furlong out. The son of Galileo pulled clear in the closing stages to score by seven lengths from newcomer Haripour

“He'd a lovely run the last day, and he didn't mind the ground. He gave me a nice feel, and it's what you would want him to be doing on his second run,” said the winning rider.

Boylesports introduced the winner at 33/1 for next year's Derby

(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.