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Gary Carson

Gary Carson

Chiclet makes the breakthrough

Wed 8th Oct 2014, 14:25

Chiclet and Pat Smullen Chiclet and Pat Smullen
© Photo Healy Racing

Chiclet gained a deserved success in the opening Kells Maiden at Navan this afternoon when making all in the five furlong contest.

The drop back to the minimum trip did the trick for Tracey Collins' charge after she failed to get home over six at Listowel last time.

Pat Smullen kept the daughter of Dandy Man going in the closing stages to hold the challenge of Aerialist by half a length.

The winner was sent off 13/8 favourite with the runner-up having been well backed this morning from as big as 6/1 and returning 15/8 second choice.

Chiclet had been runner-up on six previous occasions before today so wasn't winning out of turn and Collins said:-

“She’s been second six times but is very genuine and certainly deserved that. She just kept running into some good ones.

“We bred her mother and also trained the father. She’s in the sales at Goffs.”

(Additional reporting by Alan Magee)

1st
13/8Fav
Tote €2.40 €1.10
2nd
0.5L
15/8
€1.50
3rd
5L
33/1
€11.90
About Gary Carson
Gary started out as a trainee/assistant journalist with the Sporting Life newspaper and has worked in the racing industry for over 25 years. He has been with the Press Association since 2013 and won the Irish Field Nap Table in 2016. He enjoys working with horses and trained his own horse, Mamaslittlestar, to win a point-to-point in 2019.