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Gary Carson

Gary Carson

Get It strikes again in dramatic finish

Sun 2nd Apr 2023, 15:23

I Don't Get It and Gearoid Brouder I Don't Get It and Gearoid Brouder
© Photo Healy Racing

Front-runner I Don't Get It landed the spoils in a dramatic finish to the Tote Handicap Hurdle at Downpatrick.

Neill McCluskey 's charge took up his usual position at the headed of affairs in the extended two-mile-one contest but was pressed from the third last by Tipp For Mac

That rival got the final flight wrong, however, unshipping Rachael Blackmore.

I Don't Get It, who had hung left throughout and ran around approaching two out, then veered badly left coming to the foot of the hill.

The 6/1 shot (12s this morning) found plenty though in the closing stages, for Gearoid Brouder, to hold the late run of Warm In Gorey by a length-and-a-quarter.

McCluskey said: "He's a serious jumper. I was going to run him over fences, but I thought I would give him one run over hurdles.

"He has been off since August and has never left home, I went to Brian Hamilton's twice I think. That's all he has done.

"He's an honest horse. He kept finding and hanging!

"That's his second win here and that horse has some form, he has won me a lot of money and he has only won two races in his life.

"We have three or four young horses ready and a few nice horses."

On his horses always being ridden prominently, he added: "We are a small yard and if I put my horses in the middle, I don't know where they would end up! They are used to going on their own at home."

(Quotes by Michael Graham)

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.