Aintree in Carthalawn’s sights

The Harry Kelly-trained Carthalawn lit up yesterday’s well-attended Tallow point-to-point meeting, staged on Jimmy Mangan’s lands at Shanakill Cross, by winning a vintage renewal of the open lightweight.

Carthalawn (7/4), a former six-time track winner that was rated 150 over fences when concluding his racecourse career in January of last year, was well off the pace in eighth as Kilty Storm took the 13 runners along at a ferocious gallop out on the final circuit.

Pa King however refused to panic on Carthlawn and he produced his mount with precision timing to go second on the approach to two out. The victorious 11-year-old took up the running before the last to come home by three lengths from John Halley’s Outlaw Pete with a one-length gap back to the gallant veteran Kilty Storm in third.