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Oscar winner delights O’Brien
- Updated: December 4, 2016
A review of the rest of Sunday’s action from Huntingdon, where Fergal O’Brien’s fine run of form continued.
Oscar Rose provided trainer Fergal O’Brien with the perfect pick me up when taking a career first success in the Betfred TV Henrietta Knight Mares’ Standard Open National Hunt Flat Race at Huntingdon.
After seeing stable star Alvarado come down at the second in the Becher Chase at Aintree on Saturday, the Naunton handler left the Cambridgeshire track in a much happier mood following the four-year-old’s victory in the two-mile Listed prize.
Always moving well under Paddy Brennan, the 4/1 shot, who finished fourth in the same grade on her previous start at Cheltenham, showed a battling attitude to edge out Peggies Venture by a neck.
O’Brien said: “She is very good and I’m delighted for the owners. Paddy Brennan said she just travelled well throughout the race and said she felt like the best horse. She had a bit of a look when she hit the front, but he said he enjoyed the ride.
“Conor Shoemark gave her a lovely ride at Cheltenham and she has progressed from that. It is a shame he didn’t ride her as he brought the owners to me and is a big part of the team, but Paddy rides everything when he can.
“We can’t run her in an ordinary bumper, but they will let us run at Sandown in a Listed bumper so we will probably do that.
“It is a similar …
