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Gary Carson

Gary Carson

Soul on top for Carroll and Lyons

Wed 18th May 2022, 18:40

Neo Soul and Gary Carroll Neo Soul and Gary Carroll
© Photo Healy Racing

The consistent Neo Soul bagged a second career victory when landing the five-furlong handicap on the card at Cork this evening.

Gary Carroll produced his mount to lead, on the outer, passing the furlong pole and he kept on well in the closing stages, despite a few flashes of his tail.

The Ger Lyons-trained Kodiac gelding posted a length-and-a-half victory over the staying on Red Lacewing

Neo Soul went to post a 13/2 shot today having chased home stable-mate Jarvis at Bellewstown on his seasonal debut last month. That rival finished sixth this time.

Assistant Shane Lyons said afterwards:- "He came on an awful lot from his Bellewstown run and we expected that but Colin (Keane) couldn't get off Jarvis because he is a very genuine horse.

"The winner improved for the blinkers but we were worried about the ground and Gary was sensible and came up on the virgin unpoached ground. Both him and Jarvis are very fast and a track like this suits them.

"Both will run in those handicaps and are very good fun horses."

(Quotes by Tom Weekes)

1st
13/2
Tote €7.50 €2.40
2nd
1.5L
9/2
€2.10
3rd
2L
13/2
€2.20
4th
0.5L
33/1
bf
9.5L
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.