Tipp Top gets Hughes bandwagon rolling again

DESSIE HUGHES saddled his first winner since the death of stable jockey Kieran Kelly when Tipp Top took the WLR FM Maiden Hurdle at Tramore last night.

“Life goes on”, remarked Hughes sadly in the winner’s enclosure. Tipp Top, owned by well known surgeon, Fred Kenny, a man who has often put jockeys back together again, and partnered by Roger Loughran, powered ahead over the second last to score unextended by 12 lengths.

The winner would almost certainly have had more to do, however, had the front running Fieldsofclover, still going well at the time, not departed the scene three out.