Versatile Bucket Shakes Carberry's career to life

She may have a fondness for the 'pointing' fields in her role with p2p.ie but Sarah Ann Madden will surely put Dundalk Stadium up the pecking order of her favourite places to be as her gelding, Shake The Bucket a home-bred son of Ashkalani got Megan Carberry off the mark as a jockey in the Winter Racing At Dundalk Apprentice Handicap to supplement his course win from 112 days back.

Shake The Bucket is a cracking sort for connections as he now has a point-to-point, a maiden hurdle and two all-weather wins to his name and this latest success came despite the five-year-old's tendency to race keenly. An 18/1 scorer last time and 14/1 on this occasion, Shake The Bucket eventually got to the front inside the final hundred yards and he kept on well to beat Johnnys Legacy by a neck. Well-backed favourite General Bunching (around a 5/1 chance this morning into 13/8) could only beat one home. He was reported to have took a keen hold early, hung badly on the home turn and found little thereafter. He was post race normal.

Megan Carberry is eighteen and she is a cousin of Paul, Nina and Philip. She was previously a leading light on the pony racing circuit. (AM & EM)