Life's a beach for 'Rock' star Nina

NINA CARBERRY continued in sparkling form at the annual Laytown meeting yesterday when partnering Rockazar to a narrow victory in the Hibernia Steel Amateur Handicap.

The Ger Lyons-trained four-year-old denied last year's winner of the race, Moon At Midnight, by a short head after a rousing battle. And the season's leading amateur has now recorded seven successes on the flat in addition to ten under National Hunt rules this season.

Front-running tactics paid handsome dividends in the early races on the card as locally trained mare Paris Sue and then Dernier Danse successfully adopted front-running tactics to record wide margin successes.