Hit The Frame off the mark under Flanagan Sean Flanagan made all the running on the John Flavin trained Hit The Frame to win the Racing Again October 26th & 27th Handicap Chase at Wexford. A 10-race maiden coming into the race, the gelding had shaped with definite promise when second at Roscommon on his penultimate start. Sent straight into the lead here, the 13/2 chance jumped well out in front, leading by upwards of ten lengths with five to jump. As the chasing pack gradually closed from the third last, Hit The Frame looked in trouble entering the home straight, as his lead was down to a couple of lengths. To his credit, he responded with a big leap two out, asserting again to go clear on the run to the last. Idling somewhat on the run-in, Hit The Frame held up well to beat Seventy Eight Team by a neck. John Flavin said: "He deserved that. He ran a cracker in Roscommon and ran a good race the last day where we probably didn't make enough use of him. I said to Sean today to just use his jumping and his jumping won it for him. I was very worried half an hour ago when the fences were taken out of the previous race, that wouldn't of suited us at all, but thankfully they came back in. "Liam Quinlan gave him a great ride in Roscommon and that was his first sort of good run. He tried to make all that day too. He is just a very, very good jumper when he gets into that rhythm. I was watching the races and there was horses behind making lots of mistakes, he just puts them under pressure. "I ran him today after last week because there is not another race for him for about another five weeks, a three-mile plus race. We just said we'd chance running him and see what happens and thankfully it worked out. "The owners are local to me in Tramore and there is a couple of Portlaw men involved too." Additional reporting by Donal Murphy.
