Fourth Wexford win for Chosen Shant A second winner of the evening for Phillip Enright, Chosen Shant (15/2) again showed her liking for Wexford in the Dan & Breda Byrne Memorial Handicap Chase over an extended two miles, three furlongs. A dual course winner over hurdles last summer, the 10-year-old was successful over fences here in June. Always close to the pace on this occasion, Chosen Shant led between the final two fences to account for Luimneach by three and a quarter lengths. “She’s a bit of fun. We got her last year, she hadn’t won anything, and she just likes our place,” said winning owner/trainer Aengus King. “She’s very happy at home. She loves her work but when we got her first she didn’t like it. After about two months she sweetened up. “I’d love to have got her when she was a five-year-old, it’s near the end of her career but it’s fantastic to get a win no matter what. “He said that was the best she’s felt when he’s rode her, that she travelled unbelievably well. That she was on the bridle nearly all the way. “She’s carrying me up the gallop every day, no wonder she looked back at Phillip and saw nothing! “She could come back here at the end of October. We’ll probably go to Listowel. “Tom Maher is probably going to breed from her. I’m not interested in breeding horses, I’m too old for that. By the time the foal would be four, I’d be on a Zimmer frame! “We enjoy every win and Wexford has been very good to us over the years. She’s won here four times now. “The left-handed track definitely suits her. Any time we’ve ran her right-handed, anywhere sharp, she wouldn’t travel.” Additional reporting by Gary Carson
