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Everyone says the same thing as horse named Mayo For Sam narrowly loses

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Everyone says the same thing as horse named Mayo For Sam narrowly loses

Mayo For Sam looked the winner everywhere in the GAIN The Advantage Series Handicap at Ballinrobe on Monday evening, but was headed on the line.

Trained by Ado McGuinness, the four-year-old led around the turn and up the home straight before Denise Foster’s runner Desert Friend just got up in the nick of time to score under Ben Coen.




The Adam Caffrey-ridden Mayo For Sam went off the 9/2 joint-favourite for the 1m5f contest and looked set to reward her backers, but for late disappointment, which had many people taking to social media to make the same joke.

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One person wrote: “In every reality Mayo For Sam will never happen.”

Another commented: “Even the poor horse is afflicted by the ‘so close yet so far’ syndrome as Mayo For Sam beaten a head in Ballinrobe.”

Someone else said: “Backed a horse called ‘Mayo For Sam’ there. Beaten on the line in a photo finish after looking a likely winner turning for home. I shoulda known better with a name like that, tbh.”

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