Mister Wilson and Nathan Crosse© Photo Healy Racing
Mister Wilson gained consecutive Nursery wins today at Galway as trainer Paul McEnery's homebred gelding landed the Swordsecurity.com Handicap under Nathan Crosse.
The son of Alhebayeb finished second and won on consecutive days at Gowran Park last week and today made all for an easy three and three parts of a length win over Lexi's Dream
Winning owner Billy McEnery, son of the trainer, later reported “I think on top of being hardy, he is better than we thought he was and is probably good.
“There's obviously a fear of having his races back-to-back but there were so few entries we had to take our chance and that's his last race this year as I don't think he'd handle Dundalk.
“He has done more than we expected and something like the Madrid Handicap could be an option next year, if he went up (in the ratings).”
McEnery's grandfather Martyn McEnery famously bred Red Rum and Champion Chase winner Remittance Man, and he added “we try to sell our horses but couldn't sell this fellow although physically he is a lovely horse. We only ever have a handful in training; the ones we can't sell or with things wrong with them!”
McEnery also gave Red Rum his name by taking the last three letters of the names of his dam Mared and sire Quorum.
