Lights, camera, action - starter is credited at Punchestown Successful jockey Sean Flanagan credited race-starter Paul Moloney with Luminous Light’s (9/1) win in Punchestown’s Matchbook B2B And Operator Hedging Novice Chase today, as the reluctant-beginner scored for trainer Anthony McCann. Luminous Light races for the Good Counsellors Syndicate, which includes past and present members of Flanagan’s former school Good Counsel College in New Ross, but last month was withdrawn having refused at both Cork and Limerick. Today, the moody six-year-old again acted up but having been aided at the start by competing jockey JJ Slevin, subsequently by a team and then by starter Moloney, finally began racing in rear. Flanagan improved Luminous Light to chase the leaders from halfway before leading at the last, with the pair scoring by 1.5 lengths from Glenashling . Flanagan revealed “I have to thank the starter Paul Moloney and a number of lads at the start who gave him every chance and helped out. He’s frustrating because he’s not an ungenuine horse, and you could see he battled all the way to the line. “His work has been as good as ever and maybe today will take that (refusing to line-up) out of his head. “I knew we had only hacked away and I’ve come forward on the outside to keep everything nice and simple for him.” Quotes from Alan Magee
