Classy Carberry at tactical best

PAUL CARBERRY celebrated the New Year in style when recording a fine double on Dont Back Down and Osirixamix at Fairyhouse yesterday.

Carberry was seen at his tactical best, making every yard of the running on both horses. And the victory of Osirixamix over odds-on favourite Lastoftheleaders in the Olympics & European Football, Handicap Hurdle provided compensation for connections following his last fence fall in last month’s Hilly Way Chase in Cork, when he was set to slam the long-odds-on favourite and ill-fated Golden Silver.

Osirixamix dictated the pace, jumping far more fluently than the Paul Townend-ridden favourite, which was bidding to give trainer Arthur Moore an across-the-card double following the success of Pass The Hat in Tramore.