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Gary Carson

Gary Carson

Machine finishes best in Cork finale

Fri 23rd Jul 2021, 20:35

Supreme Machine and Gary CarrollSupreme Machine and Gary Carroll
© Photo Healy Racing

The Sheila Lavery-trained Supreme Machine stormed home from the rear to land the concluding Kanturk Handicap at Cork this evening.

The ten furlong contest was run at a searching pace as Ernest Loring took it up shortly after the start and established a healthy lead before halfway.

That rival stopped quickly a furlong-and-a-half from home and it was Supreme Machine who stayed on best of the chasing pack.

Gary Carroll got a good tune from the Mehmas filly as she swooped to lead inside the final furlong and record a length-and-a-quarter success over Ten Ten Twenty

The 7/1 winner had dropped a couple of pounds after finishing sixth on her most recent outing at Navan 13 days ago.

Carroll said afterwards:- "Sheila said she was coming and improving with her runs.

“She has been a bit slow out of the gates and today she jumped really well and I could have went forward but we were going a really good gallop so I left them go.

"She picked up well in the straight and I hit the line strong and had a fair job pulling her up. She'll win again."

(Quotes by Tom Weekes)

1st
7/1
Tote €9.40 €2.50
2nd
1.25L
16/1
€3.10
3rd
4L
14/1
€4.90
4th
hd
20/1
€5.50
bf
1.5L
11/4Fav
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.