Horse won easily and his owner cleaned up, one month after his beaten effort at Warwick caused concern from the stewards
An absolute sensation was caused in racing’s corner of Twitter on Thursday by the victory of Little Rory Mac at Market Rasen and the before and after comments of a Twitter account belonging to the horse’s owner, Adam McCormack. Little Rory Mac was sent off as the 15-8 favourite after opening on course at 13-8 but won like an odds-on shot by an easy seven lengths.
That provoked complaints from some who had backed the horse when he last ran, at Warwick last month, when he was settled out the back and ran on to be a never-nearer sixth. Liam Heard received a 10-day suspension from the stewards that day “for failing to ride his mount in such a way that he could be seen to ask for real or substantial effort to obtain the best possible placing”.
Little Rory Mac travels all over his rivals to get off the mark in the Download The @MansionBet App Conditional Jockeys' Handicap Hurdle.
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