RACING: Rimell shows that all you need is Love (From Witney Gazette)

RACING: Rimell shows that all you need is Love

5:12pm Wednesday 2nd May 2012 in Other sport By Russell Smith, Sports reporter specialising in horse racing. Call me on 01865 425453

Leafield trainer Mark Rimell might start to take his career in a different direction after his only Flat horse Love Tale won at Brighton.

His best horses to date, Oneway and Crossbow Creek, have been jumpers, but success in a six-furlong handicap was already the second of Love Tale’s brief career.

Sent off at 8-1, she beat the 5-6 favourite Mayo Lad by a length and three-quarters in the hands of Fergus Sweeney.

And Rimell said: “Willie Carson once came to the stable and said it would be a good place to train Flat horses, so getting a few more is something I’m going to have to think very seriously about.”

Rimell was back in the winner’s enclosure a day later when Azulada Bay landed a handicap hurdle under Tom Scudamore at Plumpton.

Chipping Norton trainer Charlie Longsdon, who ended the National Hunt season with a superb tally of 69 winners, has a trip to Royal Ascot in mind for Secret Tune after his win on the Flat at Doncaster.

The eight-year-old, who pipped Lady Amakhala by a neck under Dane O’Neill in a two-mile handicap, has the Ascot Stakes as his target.