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Mark Nunan

Mark Nunan

Sonnyboyliston packs a punch for Coen

Fri 19th Jun 2020, 18:58

Sonnyboyliston and Ben Coen (yellow) winning at GowranSonnyboyliston and Ben Coen (yellow) winning at Gowran
© Photo Healy Racing

The Kildare Racing Club have been in the game a long time, and their coffers will have been nicely replenished after Sonnyboyliston landed a touch in the It’s Not Rocket Science MansionBet 3-y-o Handicap.

It may not be rocket science, but there are a few shrewdies in this particular syndicate who no doubt availed of the 11/1 on offer overnight about the handicap first-timer.

Returned favourite at 10/3, the gelded son of Power had run quite well in a couple of Curragh maidens last term. Ben Coen rode him handy and he forged on in the final quarter mile before seeing off the challenge of Meaningful Vote (7/1) by a length and a half, with a big break of nine lengths back to the front-running 3/1 favourite Sideshift

It was a second winner of the day for trainer Johnny Murtagh.

Winning jockey Ben Coen said: "He jumped well, travelled well and probaby wants a bit further. He liked the ground and handled the track well."

Additional reporting by Alan Magee

1st
10/3
Tote €3.90 €1.40
2nd
1.5L
7/1
€2.00
3rd
9L
3/1Fav
€1.70
4th
1.25L
13/2
About Mark Nunan
Mark has followed racing since he was a teenager and worked for many years as a broadcaster with the Irish version of Racecall. He joined the Press Association in 2019 and is also a contributor to the Racing Post. A native of Kildare, he now lives in Sligo.