RACE REPORT

1999 b g ex Plollys Glow (Glow)
John Costigan Memorial Novice Hurdle, Clonmel, 2m, £7,055, s/h

1st

 MAN ABOUT TOWN

6/4

11.5

2nd

 Arc En Ciel

 7/1

11.0

3rd

Escrea

 14/1

10.11

Distances: ½, 8

Time: 4m 15.00s

Ran: 19

Trainer: T J Taaffe

Jockey: B J Geraghty

Owner: John P McManus

 A pillar to post win here for market leader Man About Town, but he had to work hard on the run-in with the line coming just in time for favourite backers. He made a favourable impression when making a winning bow for tom Taaffe in a decent Fairyhouse Bumper last January but his hurdling debut at Punchestown saw him fall at the first. "He has to grow up a bit to be a man as he had a right tug out there," said Tom Taaffe, who was understandably pleased with his jumping in the circumstances and nominated a winners race at Cork on November 21 next.

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