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Oisin Doherty

Paul Townend admits fault in Facile Vega ride at Leopardstown

Paul Townend admits that he got his tactics wrong aboard Facile Vega at the Dublin Racing Festival last Sunday.

The 33-year-old concedes that he went too hard too early as Facile Vega slumped to a fifth placed finish in the Tattersalls Ireland Novice Hurdle at Leopardstown last Sunday.

Speaking exclusively to Ladbrokes, Townend said: " With Facile Vega, we got the tactics wrong, going too hard too early and he was beaten a long way from home."

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Despite being hot favourite at 1/2, the Willie Mullins trained horse finished a lowly fifth, well behind eventual winner Il Etait Temps.

After the race, Mullins spoke about how Townend will need to ride Facile Vega like a 'racehorse' and not like a 'machine.'

"They were just going too fast, everyone could see they were going too fast. Paul (Townend) will have to ride him like a racehorse in the future, today he rode him like a machine," Mullins said.

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