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Gary Carson

Gary Carson

Love lands finale despite last fence scare

Thu 17th Feb 2022, 17:12

Enduring Love & Denis O'Regan get things wrong at the lastEnduring Love & Denis O'Regan get things wrong at the last
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Enduring Love survived a last fence blunder to claim the spoils in the concluding Caherlough Handicap Chase at Clonmel.

Denis O'Regan had to sit tight a couple of times on the Sam Curling-trained gelding, who also made a bad mistake at the sixth fences in the two-and-a-half mile contest.

He was disputing going out on the last circuit and had a narrow lead down to the second last fence as Mosstown Miller and Fox Watch came to press.

The 7/1 shot was just starting to assert when getting the last wrong but quickly recovered to go on and post a two-and-a-half length win over the staying on Quarry Girl

"he is owned by the Clearys who have the jockeys' valet business and a few friends, so I'm delighted as it's their first horse.

"In fairness to Philip Rothwell (previous trainer) he said he'd win when he got his ground and he did. You'd never know he might sneak another one of those races. He is a big strong horse who handles the ground well.

"He is in in Thurles next week and might go there if the ground is soft enough."

He added:- "I won a bumper with Shantreusse (today's feature race winner) here last year so I'm delighted he went on. He'll be a very good chaser."

(Quotes by Tom Weekes)

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.