Great Trango provides trainer Harry Kelly with biggest career victory in feature

Nobody could begrudge Fethard trainer Harry Kelly his day in the sun having previously sold horses like Lagostovegas and Moyle Park to bigger yards, who went on to achieve big-race successes.

And it was grand stable servant Great Trango who provided the trainer with the biggest success of his career by winning the €120,000 handicap hurdle at Galway in game fashion.

The six-year-old, ridden by Phillip Enright, put the disappointment of Monday's big amateur Flat handicap defeat well behind him as he stayed on strongly from the final flight to overhaul front-running Ask Susan close home. Monday's winner and favourite Great White Shark was four-and-a-half-lengths back in third.

The week had not started well for Kelly, who has in the region of 20 horses, as Great Trango suffered a terrible draw and didn't get the run of the race on Monday.

Kelly said: "The plan from 12 months ago was the amateur handicap on Monday and this race on Saturday. Nothing went right on Monday, but I would have to thank Jamie Codd for looking after him. He never hit him and that's one of the reasons he was able to win this today.

"It's nice to get one of the two. Jamie said to run him if the ground was okay at the end of the week, and he was sorry to say it, but he did a lovely bit of work for today that night."

A son of top-class miler Canford Cliffs and 1,000 Guineas winner Tarascon, a 2m7f handicap hurdle at Galway would not have been in the minds of Great Trango's breeders. But Tarascon's dam Breyani won the 2m amateur handicap here in 1991. What goes around comes around.

Explaining how he came to train a horse who started his career with Aidan O'Brien, Kelly added: "I bought this horse from John Halley. He was bought to replace Lagostovegas two years ago and he's not a bad replacement. It's not often I can say that I was able to win with one Aidan O'Brien couldn't win with!"

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