On a night when apprentice Conor Hoban took the riding honours with a double, the Jim Bolger-trained three-year-old Livia Galilei landed the Connacht Oaks in Sligo last night.

ON his first visit to Sligo since the eighties, John Oxx saddled both winner and runner-up, Cape Of Good Grace and Sceal Nua, in the feautured Irish Stallion Farms Connacht Oaks last night.