PAT SMULLEN, who will ride Grey Swallow in the King George V1 and Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes at Newbury today, enjoyed a timely boost at Fairyhouse last night when completing a double for his boss Dermot Weld on Gripping and Wildnerness Bay.

INGRES, a lightly raced son of Sadler’s Wells, can provide the solution to the concluding maiden at the Curragh tonight.