Listowel report: Easy Game completes hat-trick
Hot As Pepper and Ben Harvey pull clear to win the Dr Louis O’Carroll Bumper at Listowel. Picture: Healy Racing
The feature on the bank holiday card in Listowel was the John J Galvin Chase and while conditions were more testing than ideal for long odds-on favourite Easy Game, Willie Mullins’ charge had little trouble completing his hat-trick for the year.
Now a winner of eight of his 19 starts over fences and 12 of his 30 in total, he fell a little short of the top level but peaked with a rating of 161. Still capable of running to a mark close to that, he faced inferior rivals this time and that allowed Paul Townend to dictate throughout. Born By The Sea kept him honest, but the Nick Peacock-owned winner was never in much danger.
