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Mark Nunan

Mark Nunan

Ragtime Red calls the tune at favourite venue

Mon 15th Aug 2022, 18:20

Ragtime RedRagtime Red
© Photo Healy Racing

Ragtime Red has been a good servant for Anthony McCann and won over the extended ten furlongs at Dundalk for the fourth time in the second split of the Bar One Racing 50 Euro Free Bet Handicap.

Fitted with cheekpieces for the first time on his fifty-first start (wore blinkers once before), the 28/1 chance was helped by being ridden prominently in a very slowly-run affair. In second place from halfway, the seven-year-old led two furlongs out and kept finding for Killian Leonard to beat the favourite Spirituoss by a length and a quarter. Long-time leader Fryda was just a nose further back in third.

Winning trainer McCann said: "Killian (Leonard) gave him a superb ride and I told him 'don't complicate it and just don't disappoint him, let him roll on'. He doesn't like horses crowding him. In the back straight, he got into it.

"I know he was wrong in the handicap, but he worked very well last week. I'd say the cheekpieces happened to help as well.

"The horses are all in good form at the minute and hopefully we can kick on.

"Big thanks to Rita Shah (owner) for holding on to him."

Quotes from Michael Graham

1st
28/1
Tote €37.50 €7.50
2nd
1.25L
5/2Fav
€1.60
3rd
nose
28/1
€6.30
4th
nk
28/1
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.