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The Big Lense puts Elliott achievements into focus
Gordon Elliott passed the 150-winner mark in point-to-points on Sunday with an across- the-card double at Tinahely and Cragmore. The County Meath trainer who enjoyed his best campaign between the flags in the 2012/13 season when saddling 33 winners, has sent out three winners from nine runners this term.
In the Goffs UK Aintree Sale four-year-old geldings’ maiden Elliott unleashed the impressive The Big Lense, a horse owned by Simon McGonagle, head lad at his yard.
Out of Megan’s Joy, a Grade 2 winning hurdler for Colm Murphy, the €24,000 Tattersalls purchase took it up on the run from two out and soon quickened clear to defeat Knight In Dubai by 20 lengths.
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