Course specialist Takeachancejimmy again lands feature

Takeachancejimmy once again showed his liking for Ballinrobe when repeating last year's win in the featured Get Galway Ready With Tote.ie Handicap over an extended nine furlongs.

It was certainly far from straightforward for the Nigel Slevin-trained gelding with Jamie Powell hard at work a fair way from home.

However the 17/2 chance really got motoring in the straight and came home strongly on the outer to get up close home. Laelaps appeared a likely winner when hitting the front a furlong out but had no answer to the winners late surge going down by a-length-and-a-quarter. Ghasham could find no extra inside the final furlong finishing a further two-and-three-quarter-lengths away in third.

Incidentally the winner also finished second in this race back in 2019.

Slevin said, “That’s three years on the trot he’s got money in this race so I’m delighted. We felt he was coming back to himself.

“They went a good gallop and it’s taking a bit of getting on that ground this evening. It suits him when they go hard and then he’s able to come at them late, so it all worked out.

“This place suits him. They tend to go hard into the first turn and he can come at them late down the hill. And that race never has a huge amount of runners which means you’re never too far away, even when you’re at the back.

“He won’t go to Galway, he hates the place. We come west for this!”

Quotes by Mark Nunan