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Your Honor lays down law to the favourite

Your Honor, near side, beats Chatterbox by a neckYour Honor, near side, beats Chatterbox by a neck
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Your Honor and Chatterbox had the second divide of the Ross Road Handicap to themselves a fair way out and it was the former who got the better of the battle in Killarney.

They raced on ahead of the field a furlong and a half down and were locked together in the final furlong.

Your Honour and Mikey Sheehy took a narrow lead close home and toughed it out by a neck at 40/1 from the 3/1 favourite who had to settle for the runner-up berth. Hello Power (12/1) won the separate race for third, some four and a quarter lengths away.

"He wants soft ground and he just stays. He will be a beautiful jump horse," trainer James Nash said.

"The ground was too quick at Roscommon and I shouldn't have run him and, the last day they went no gallop and it didn't work out.

"He might have one more run on the flat, but I am looking forward to him going over hurdles. Whether or not he might need a new owner or not, I don't know as Albert (Conneally) mightn't be into jumping."

Additional reporting by Tom Weekes

1st
40/1
Tote €51.40 €4.50
2nd
nk
3/1Fav
€1.10
3rd
4.25L
12/1
€3.30
4th
3.25L
11/2
About Michael Graham
Michael has worked in horse racing journalism for more than 15 years, having also written a weekly betting column on Gaelic football and hurling for a newspaper. He is involved in writing the My Racing Story features on this website. He spent a year in South Africa completing a Diploma in Business Administration and also studied Newspaper Journalism in Belfast. He enjoys playing 5-a-side football on a regular basis.