Carroll at his Best on Lyons' Law

Gary Carroll got the fractions right on Best Law (7/2) who made most of the running and clung on for victory in the Core Bullion Traders Rated Race.

A winner on his penultimate start at Killarney, the blinkered son of Aclaim led after a furlong and was unpestered on the front end until the closing stages where he dug deep to hold fast-finishing Tanazadia by a head. 

Andrew Duff, assistant to trainer Ger Lyons, said of the Gaelic Thoroughbreds-owned winner: "Gary thought one or two of them might go on but they were going a fairly pedestrian pace so he let him roll along.

"He seemed happy enough in front and he handled the track well. He handled it better than Galway the last day. In against the older horses and on the slow ground, it seemed to scupper him a bit. Back on the nicer surface here he got the job done. 

"He'll stay going down the handicap route and we'll plot our course with him. At some stage he'll be a nice dual-purpose horse for someone. There is plenty of size about him, he gets a trip and he's not slow either. That'll be probably where he ends up."

Quotes from Donal Murphy