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Gary Carson

Gary Carson

Prendergast doubles up with Persian

Wed 11th Apr 2018, 19:50

 Red Persian and Chris Hayes (far) winning from Blue Uluru Red Persian and Chris Hayes (far) winning from Blue Uluru
© Photo Healy Racing

Patrick Prendergast doubled up at Dundalk tonight when the well-backed Red Persian repelled all comers in the Avenue Inn Handicap.

The gelding was backed from 8/1 this morning and went to post an 11/4 shot for the six-furlong contest.

Chris Hayes bounced out in front on the son of Haatef but he was strongly pressed in the straight with the whole field in a line a furlong-and-a-half from home.

Red Persian proved a willing partner and repelled the challenge of Blue Uluru inside the final furlong to record a head success.

Prendergast said:- “He loves the fast ground, and the day he won last year it was firm. I think I could run him on the M50 and it would be no problem to him!

“Chris said he loved that. A lot of horses don’t handle it up here but he loved it.

“He did very well over the winter, and put on a good bit of weight.

“He’s now going to be up in the 90’s but he’s a good hard-knocking little horse, and he only just does enough.”

(Quotes by Alan Magee)

1st
11/4
Tote €3.80 €1.40
2nd
hd
7/2
€1.80
3rd
1.25L
4/1
4th
1L
16/1
bf
1.75L
5/2Fav
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.