O’Leary flies high with quartet of Cheltenham winners

Michael O’Leary was flying higher than Ryanair’s fleet of Boeing 737-800s yesterday after his Gigginstown Stud operation claimed four winners on a crazy and at times controversial closing day of the Cheltenham Festival.

The aviation bigwig had known success in these parts in years past, but not recently, and he looked set for another blank this week as the last of the four days dawned and he still awaited his maiden victory of the 2014 event.

A switch in the placing of a big screen had forced the millionaire businessman to move from his favourite spot in the parade ring on Tuesday, but his luck finally changed when Tiger Roll, Very Wood, Don Poli, and Savello all came home first past the post.