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Articles By Gary Carson

Gary Carson

Gary started out as a trainee/assistant journalist with the Sporting Life newspaper and has worked in the racing industry for over 25 years. He has been with the Press Association since 2013 and won the Irish Field Nap Table in 2016. He enjoys working with horses and trained his own horse, Mamaslittlestar, to win a point-to-point in 2019.

Fri 10th May 2013

Gabriel Brandy survived a mistake at the last

Day ends well for Brandy

5.41PM

Battle Of Marengo runs at Leopardstown

Ground eases for Derby Trial

11.44AM

Tue 7th May 2013

Good ride by Shane Foley

Hurricane bursts through for victory

8.49PM

Cyclone and Johnny Murtagh (last in shot on left) come with a winning run

Murtagh arrives late on Cyclone

8.23PM

Leading Light and Joseph O'Brien

Light Leads them merry dance

7.52PM

Alive Alive Oh and Fran Berry

Oaks on agenda for classy Alive

7.26PM

Just Pretending

\"Difficult\" Pretending impresses

6.53PM

Katchy Lady and Chris Hayes win from Vinson Massif

Lady not for Katching

6.23PM

Above The Law (left) wins from Indigo Iris (blinkers) and Like Magic

Law leaves it late in opener

6.03PM

Bryan Cooper

Cooper set for operation this morning

8.25AM

Mon 6th May 2013

Michael Halford & Shane Foley

Orchid another success for Roper

5.41PM

Scotland Forever & Tadhg O'Shea (right) just get the better of Wexford Opera (left)

Scotland rallies for game win

3.09PM

Kingsbarns

Kingsbarns unlikely to make Derby

2.59PM

Michaelmas & Joseph O'Brien on their way to victory

Michaelmas lands the odds in opener

2.37PM

Fri 3rd May 2013

Double for Chris Hayes

Hayes makes amends on Majenta

8.29PM

Eastern Rules strides clear at Dundalk

Eastern Rules for Halford

7.57PM

In Salutem and Fran Berry

Salutem gains deserved success

7.32PM

Above The Law and Sam James scoring at Dundalk

Law lords it on handicap debut

6.56PM

Najm Suhail and Chris Hayes

Suhail looks good on debut

6.36PM

Sat 20th Apr 2013

Big Whiskey scores for James Barrett and Ronan Whelan at Naas

Barrett Bigs up Whiskey

5.56PM

Cash Or Casualty and Rory Cleary

Cash strikes back on turf

5.23PM

Allegra Tak and Chris Hayes

Hayes doubles up on Tak

4.51PM

Maarek and Seamie Heffernan

Maarek on the mark on return

4.14PM

Confident Cub and Dylan Robinson

Robinson shines on Cub

3.38PM

Talitha Kum (right) too strong for Fortify

Talitha toughs it out

3.02PM

Pay Day Kitten (left) gets the better of Hold The Line

Kitten collects in Naas opener

2.33PM

Wed 17th Apr 2013

Bayan holds off Saga Barbara

McNamara doubles up on Bayan

9.39PM

Home Secretary (nearest) grabs The Black Devil

Secretary scores for Donnelly

9.16PM

Keeping's solo run comes to and end

Keeping goes on victory laps after success

8.50PM

Raydari (left) comes to claim Paddy The Celeb

Manning okay after another fall

8.16PM

Sylvan Mist and Fergal Lynch

Dempsey takes fall from Toberton

7.46PM

Our Manekineko and Pat Smullen beat Conversational

Piggybank lands the cash

7.11PM

Pearl Of Africa (yellow and blue) comes wide

Pearl swoops to claim opener

6.37PM

No action at Tipperary tomorrow

Tipperary cancelled

4.49PM

Racing at Wexford on Friday

Ground at Wexford eases

3.16PM

Bullet has Punchestown options

12.25PM

Argocat

Argocat aims for Grade One glory

12.23PM

Maarek (red colours) winning at the Curragh

Maarek to improve from Naas return

10.13AM

Punchestown

Punchestown yielding to soft

9.28AM

Action at Tipperary

Tipperary being monitored

8.32AM

Sat 13th Apr 2013

Storm Away emerges from the fog to score

Bahrain's half-sister Storms away with bumper

6.01PM

Final Gift clears the last

Gift claims hunters in style

5.31PM

There were two false starts before action got underway in the handicap chase

Oscar lands hat-trick in style

4.55PM

Runners gather at the start for the 2m5f handicap hurdle

Honours springs surprise in the fog

4.21PM

Beckwith makes it two from three at Tramore

3.43PM

Time Please

Time hangs on to land gamble for JP

3.12PM

Busted Tycoon (nearest) scores from Age Of Glory (centre) and Dougal Philps

Tycoon gets up in thrilling opener

2.47PM

Pop Art winning at Naas

O'Brien excited by Pop

11.07AM

Sun 7th Apr 2013

Kevin Manning, right, keeps Parish Hall up to his work at the Curragh

\"Onwards and upwards\" for Hall

4.44PM

Moth and Joseph O'Brien on their way to victory at the Curragh

Moth enters classic picture

3.12PM

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