Jesse Evans digs deep to claim 10th career victory

Jesse Evans has been placed in the Galway Hurdle on three occasions and could go for another tilt, but the Galway Plate is also an option 

Jesse Evans and  Donagh Meyler, right, win the Grade Three Grimes Hurdle from Enniskerry at Tipperary on Thursday. Picture: Healy Racing

The classy, consistent, and versatile Jesse Evans continues to be a tremendous horse for connections, and when he summoned all of his experience to prevail, narrowly, in the Kevin McManus Bookmaker Grimes Hurdle on ladies’ day at Tipperary, it was a 10th career victory for the nine-year-old.

Three times a winner on the level, once in a bumper, once over fences, and now five times over timber, he was coming here off the back of a trip to Ascot. Though out of luck there, the travelling certainly left no mark as the Noel Meade-trained and Donagh Meyler-ridden 7-2 chance was required to dig incredibly deep to collar similarly versatile veteran Enniskerry in the shadow of the post.