Tiny mare gives Curling a Clonmel double Trainer Sam Curling registered a Clonmel double today, with diminutive mare Sallap (14/1) competing the feat under jockey Sean O’Keeffe, in the Glenary Handicap Hurdle. Unplaced in eight previous starts, Sallap had finished fourth when beaten 27 lengths at Ballinrobe in July and today raced wide throughout, led after the second-last and scored a hard-fought three-parts of a length win over Great Bird . Dual Cheltenham festival-winning trainer Curling stated “Willie (Cleary, owner) bred her, so this is job done. She is a tiny little thing, she’s only 15 hands, and I’d say that could have been her day. “She had an ok run in Ballinrobe but ran no race the last day in Wexford, so we were clutching at straws today and just rode her to run well. I’d say she enjoyed that ground.” Curling had earlier scored with the Philip Enright-partnered Queenofthelodge.
