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Gary Carson

Gary Carson

Genois strikes for Bolger and Walsh

Sun 28th Feb 2021, 16:54

Genois and Mark Walsh beat Micro Manage Genois and Mark Walsh beat Micro Manage
© Photo Healy Racing

Genois proved too strong for odds-on shot Micro Manage when landing the second division of the maiden hurdle at Naas for Enda Bolger.

The JP McManus-owned gelding had been placed on both previous outings and made it third time lucky this afternoon.

Mark Walsh was always handy on the 10/3 shot and he moved up to tackle the front-running favourite two from home.

The Saddler Maker gelding jumped into the lead at the last and stayed on well in the closing stages to post a four-length winning margin.

Bolger said afterwards:- “He’s a nice horse and the nicer ground today was a help. I thought it might be too holding but the lads said it’s better on the hurdle course than the chase track.

“He’ll get further as well so hopefully we’ll find something for him in the next month or so and end up going to Punchestown for a race. He’s a chaser down the line and I’m chuffed with that.”

(Quotes by Alan Magee)

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.