Irish trainer Gordon Elliott endured his third successive second in Perth when Nedzer's Return was just touched off by Bucephalus (13-2) in the Exclusive Lodges Novices' Hurdle.

THE combination of Gordon Elliott and Barry Geraghty, in double form at Ballinrobe on Tuesday, clicked again at Kilbeggan yesterday when Mayo Abbey turned over odds-on favourite Cloone Stream in the Mullingar Beginners Chase.

THERE were doubles for riders Benny Walsh and Ross O’Sullivan at the rescheduled Kildare Hunt point-to-point fixture at Punchestown racecourse yesterday.