Jesse Evans digs deep to claim 10th career victory
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.
