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Gary Carson

Gary Carson

Massif battles to land Dundalk opener

Mon 27th Aug 2012, 18:02

Vinson Massif gets the better of Scrapper Blackwell Vinson Massif gets the better of Scrapper Blackwell
© Photo Healy Racing

Vinson Massif prevailed in a final furlong duel to land the opening two-year-old maiden at Dundalk this evening.

9/4 favourite Lottie Dod took them along in the five furlong contest but had to give way inside the final furlong.

Vinson Massif and Scrapper Blackwell came through together to grab the front-runner and it was the former who edged the verdict by a head under Joseph O'Brien.

The Ballydoyle winner was easy to back (3/1 out to 5/1 returned 4/1) and was showing nice improvement from his debut run at the Curragh last month.

"He tried. It's very hard to find races for two-year-olds the way the ground is," said the winning rider afterwards.

"He would be better over six or seven but you have to run where you can find the races on nice ground. The ground was very bad for his first run.

"He's a horse that works well at home. He could go for a nursery now and go from there."

1st
4/1
Tote €6.00 €1.30
2nd
hd
9/2
€2.00
3rd
2.25L
9/4Fav
€2.20
4th
3.5L
14/1
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.