No 'fix' required as Crowsatedappletart bags seventh win Popular trier Crowsatedappletart (5/1) was the clear-cut winner of Limerick’s STL Logistics Handicap Chase, registering a seventh success for his colourful trainer Michael Winters, local owner Paul Mullins and jockey Gavin Brouder. Beaten just a nose in an agonising photo-finish for his connections at the Listowel festival last month, Crowsatedappletart today raced behind the leaders and led entering the home straight, before scoring by three lengths from Conyers Hill. Winters reported “he is a great horse but also has his own mind. At home he’d look back at you and slow down, so I suppose he keeps a bit for himself. As a young horse he wouldn’t handle that ground so it took a long time for him, and that (2m3f) is his trip.” Regarding his ‘nose’ defeat at Listowel, Winters mischievously quipped “both myself and Eric McNamara (trainer of the winner) would have been delighted with a dead-heat, but you can’t fix it these days! If it was in a point-to-point years ago, we might have been able to! “He is rated 109 and that race had €30,000 for the winner, which is crazy but in fairness to him he had had a pile of placings. He lives out in the field but was in last night due to the weather, so maybe we’ll keep him in the night before he runs again.”
