Paddy two from two over fences

Shadow Paddy made it two from two over fences when asserting late on to win the Lee Strand Novice Chase at Killarney for trainer Eoin McCarthy.

Gary Noonan tracked the leaders on the 5/4 favourite in the early stages of the two-mile-one contest before taking closer order over the fourth last.

The Shadow Gate gelding fought it out with Endless Talk going to the penultimate fence and got the better of that rival down to the last as he posted a four-length success.

“He’s a lovely horse and we hold him in high regard. It’s a great syndicate that owns him,” said McCarthy.

“I just felt that he won his beginners’ very easy and going to Galway he just lacked that bit of experience.

“This fell in lovely and it’s all roads to Galway now. He’ll run in the Grade 3 novice chase there.

“He won four last season and two this season, he’s only a baby.

“We went to Aintree, we felt we’d be placed in a Grade 1, but he had a little heart issue on the day over there. That’s all sorted now and he’s two from two after it.”