06-04-2013, 15:32
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Re: Horse Racing
Ubak turns up heat in Mersey.
http://www.attheraces.info/article.a...=&sub=&day=Sat
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Gary Moore's Ubak shed his maiden tag in some style by running out a surprise winner of the John Smith's Mersey Novices' Hurdle at Aintree.
Having beaten just one home when a 100-1 shot for the Neptune Investment Management Novices' Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival, the five-year-old was 22-1 for his latest assignment and tracked Utopie Des Bordes and Seefood into the straight after favourite Up And Go dropped away.
Once asked to go about his business by the trainer's son Jamie, the response was hugely impressive. Ubak quickly put daylight between himself and his rivals, hopped over the last and continued to extend his lead all he way to the line, passing the post with 16 lengths in hand.
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