Clonmacash much too good for rivals under Coen The Ado McGuinness trained Clonmacash proved far too strong for his opponents when readily winning the William Hill Top Price Guarantee Handicap at Dundalk. A consistent gelding, who had been placed on his last three starts(including a win on his penultimate run), the four-year-old made a mockery of his mark here. Gavin Ryan cut out the running on Winemaker, kicking on early in the straight. However, the eye was immediately drawn to the eventual winner who moved ominously well in mid division under Sam Coen. Arriving full of running over a furlong out, the 3/1f led deep inside the last, staying on to score by two-and-a-half lengths. Ado McGuinness said: "He doesn't find a whole pile afterwards! Fair play to him (Coen), I told him to wait. "I thought he was a bit unlucky last week - we were drawn wide and he got caught wide and my other horse beat him. "We told him to wait tonight and he certainly did, fair play to him. He is a very good kid to ride. "It is great for Conan (Faulkner) who works for me, he had a big operation a couple of weeks back and he is here tonight. It is great for him to be here, he rides him out. He is on the mend which is brilliant. "We were going to keep him for the All-Weather Final, but then we scrapped that the other day. We will just rock on with him and I think he will be effective enough out on the grass as well. "I think he was an 80-rated two-year-old. Sometimes they struggle at three and they come back and find their form, and he has." Additional reporting by Michael Graham.
