Carberry coaxes Takeyourcapoff home

The in-running markets must have been in turmoil during the two and a half mile handicap hurdle in Roscommon, but ultimately it was a motionless Paul Carberry who got his mount Takeyourcapoff home.

Hat-trick seeking Kilcarry Bridge took them along but on the approach to the home turn he was picked off by the strong-travelling Mount Gunnery with David Casey seemingly holding on to plenty as his charge quickly went on.

Paul Carberry and Takeyourcapoff loomed large on Mount Gunnery’s outside at the second last though and the complexion of the race rapidly changed. Mount Gunnery came under pressure as Carberry eased away on Takeyourcapoff who glided in by four and a half lengths at 6/1.

The nine-year-old mare, in the tongue strap, was following up on a win in a Perth handicap hurdle in May. This was her sixth career success – four National Hunt and two on the Flat.

"It was a good ride. He kept wide for the better ground," Joey Elliott, representing his brother Gordon Elliott, said.

Additional reporting by Gary Carson