Fenway Park socks it to his rivals in the claimer Fenway Park appreciated a drop in class when successfully reverting to hurdles in the Nire Valley Claiming Hurdle at Clonmel this afternoon. The Andy McNamara-trained gelding was easy-to-back going off a 7/2 chance as the market spoke strongly in favour of Gather Yourself who was backed into 7/4 favourite from quotes of 10/1 earlier in the day. The pair were in the air together when Gather Yourself fell two out, and Fenway Park kept on best under Anna McGuinness on the run-in to score by a length and three-quarters. Qaasid took the runner-up spot with Halsafari a further length and a quarter back in third. Fair Damsel (sixth) was claimed by trainer Cian Collins for €6,000. McNamara said, “It was nice for him to do something, but it was a fairly weak contest. He hadn't been putting it in in chases recently so at least when others came to him today, he did enough to win and stuck his head down and battled. "He has been a bit disappointing, but we got today out of him and he is cheap now (at €10,000) that he has won a race. "The syndicate is a hab dash of people from all over and half were included in I'm A Game Changer, who won a graded race." Quotes by Tom Weekes
