L’Evangeliste gets Limerick bumper in stewards' room L’Evangeliste got the result in the stewards’ room after getting edged out in the concluding bumper at Limerick this afternoon. Fruit De Mer finished first past the post in the two-miler but ran around in front in the closing stages and came across his rival a couple of times. There was half-a-length in it at the line and after calling an enquiry the stewards decided to reverse the placings of the first two. The Eric McNamara-trained L’Evangeliste was opening his ‘track’ account at the second time of asking having been third in a bumper here over Christmas. Rider Eoin O’Brien said afterwards:- "Without doubt I felt being hampered cost me the race as I joined Ray (Barron, on Fruit De Mer) in the middle of the track and towards the finish, we were both out on the chase track. It was very bad, I received contact twice and both times were very strong.  "He is a lovely horse and I know the horse a little as I had seen him schooling in the past for Donie and James Murphy (previous handlers). “I followed him up until his point to point and his race here during Christmas has worked out nicely.  "I was delighted to get the ride, he is a nice horse going forward and will probably be better when he goes jumping, and over further." (Quotes by Tom Weekes)
