Some Tikket and Bryan Cooper clear the last© Photo Healy Racing
Some Tikket landed some nice bets when taking the PMF Accountants Beginners Chase under Bryan Cooper.
Available at 10/1 this morning and backed on track from 8/1 into 13/2, the seven-year-old gelding touched down just in front after two out.
Dessie Hughes’ charge shrugged off the challenge of Followmeuptocarlow and drew clear on the run-in to beat that rival by five and a half lengths. Milan Breeze was a further five lengths away in third.
Odds on followers of the Willie Mullins yard suffered their second reverse of the afternoon as Dogora (8/13 fav) weakened tamely from the second last to finish a well-beaten seventh.
However Mullins explained afterwards, "Ruby said he was cantering but burst a blood vessel. There was a little trickle of blood. It’s a long time since one of ours burst during a race.” Zaidpour was also soundly beaten at odds of 1/2 in the John Mulhern Galmoy Hurdle but the Closutton team did enjoy plenty of success elsewhere on the card with a treble highlighted by On His Own #8217;s victory in the Goffs Thyestes Chase.
Hughes’ daughter Sandra said, “We thought he was a two-miler but the way to ride him is to keep filling him up and come with one run.”
Additional reporting by Thomas Weekes
