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Gary Carson

Gary Carson

Church collects on second outing

Wed 30th Jun 2021, 16:55

Ladies Church beats Orinoco River Ladies Church beats Orinoco River
© Photo Healy Racing

Ladies Church stepped forward nicely from her debut run to open her account at Tipperary this afternoon.

The Johnny Murtagh-trained filly had been fourth first time up at Cork and the easy-to-back 8/1 shot was dropped back a furlong tonight to the minimum trip in the opening fillies maiden.

Ben Coen 's mount pressed front-running favourite Orinoco River for much of the race before hitting the front passing the furlong pole.

The daughter of Churchill kept on well in the closing stages to record a three-parts-of-a-length win over the 4/7 hotpot.

Coen said afterwards:- "We always liked her and she came on an awful lot from the first day, I think she'll be better again when she steps up to six (furlongs) again.

“She was good and straightforward, she jumped and travelled and quickened up well.

"She idled a bit when she got to the front but she is nice. Her form was good and we always liked her from day one so hopefully she can build on that again."

(Quotes by Tom Weekes)

1st
8/1
Tote €8.90 €2.10
2nd
0.75L
4/7Fav
€1.02
3rd
2.25L
7/1
€2.30
4th
3L
50/1
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.