Back On Top set for Plate glory

BACK ON TOP is the choice to give John Hassett and Shay Barry a first ever success in the Hewlett-Packard Galway Plate at Ballybrit this afternoon.

Back On Top set for Plate glory
Wed, 30 Jul, 2003 - 01:00
Pat Keane

A versatile sort, the nine-year-old warmed up for this by landing a tough Curragh handicap 17 days ago.

Running over two miles and strongly handled by Seamus Heffernan, Back On Top went to the front over two furlongs down and stayed on in great style to hold Blue Away by a neck.

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