Eastmore hoses up on unwatered part of track Danny Mullins is no stranger to employing enterprising tactics and guided gambled-on Eastmore, owned by Justin Carthy and Patrick John O'Brien, to a facile success in Limerick's Cappawhite Civil Engineering Handicap Hurdle over two miles. Runner-up in four of his five starts since winning at Downpatrick last summer, the Awtaad gelding was priced up at 9/2 over night and went off 10/11 favourite. Kept to the wide outside throughout and on a visibly sounder surface than the rest of the field who raced on watered ground, Eastmore went clear at the end of the back straight and cruised home to win by an eased-down 15 lengths from Dairy Force. Winning trainer Charles Byrnes revealed "Danny rang asking for permission to ride the horse out wide as he had walked the track and said it was worth 20 to 30 lengths by keeping out. I think it suited the horse being ridden on his own as well, so he had a double benefit really. "There was probably a false reading for today's result and it is the jockey who should get the (handicapper's) penalty!" "Danny would have ridden a bit for me in the past and it is his first winner for me." Additional reporting by Tom Weekes
