Mac picks up the Tempo

Tempo Mac justified hefty support to continue the tremendous form of both Gordon Elliott and Bryan Cooper in the Family Fun Evening At Clonmel Races Handicap Hurdle in Clonmel last night.

The seventeen-race maiden, unlucky when falling at the second last at Kilbeggan last time, was sent off a red-hot 11/8 favourite and, having come from off the pace, proved an ultimately convincing winner, beating Please As Punch by two and a half lengths.

Remarkably, Tempo Mac was Gordon Elliott 21st domestic winner of the new season and, although the trainer wasn’t present, he later commented: “He deserved that after what happened in Kilbeggan. He’s entered for Wexford on Wednesday and, if he’s okay, he’ll go there.”