Small-scale trainers make big impact in Curragh handicaps
Last Sunday's highly entertaining Curragh fixture was just the latest of several meetings to provide significant handicap success for trainers less celebrated than those who typically grab the headlines at headquarters.
It was a day of triumph for two locally based trainers, Japanese-born Takashi Kodama, who saddled the nine-year-old former Scandinavian champion sprinter Elusive Time to a 25-1 victory in the Irish Cambridgeshire, and Brendan Duke, who sent out the promising Warm The Voice to win a valuable nursery.
Both men gave engaging interviews to Kevin O'Ryan on At The Races. O'Ryan, from a family long associated with the coalface of the industry, is good at drawing out individuals who may not be widely known. His conversations with Kodama and Duke gave a genuine insight to what the achievement meant to them.
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