‘Corky’ ends season on a high

‘Corky’ Carroll certainly had an afternoon to savour at yesterday’s well-attended second session of the two-day Kinsale point-to-point at Farrangalway for he partnered three winners.

The middle leg of Carroll’s hat-trick came aboard Carl Dore’s well-related newcomer Shake It Up (6/1) in the second division of the four-year-old maiden. Shake It Up overcame a third-last fence blunder by easing into contention on the inner before two out and he stylishly made his way to the fore inside the final 100 yards out to oblige by a length from the filly Thisgirlisonfire, who admittedly didn’t aid her cause by drifting out to the right in the closing stages.

“This horse was a bit late coming to hand, but he liked the good ground here today and he can only improve,” said handler Dore of his wife Edel’s Shake It up, an own-brother to Jim Dreaper’s recent Punchestown festival winner Goonyella.