No soft touch for Hard Rock

HARD ROCK CITY produced a performance full of guts to grab the feature event on the final day of the week-long Galway Festival yesterday.

The Michael Grassick-trained seven-year-old was lumbered with 10st 4lb in the Michael McNamara & Co Builders Dublin & Galway Handicap and was sent off at 8-1 as punters plunged on Nastrelli, the mount of the in-form Johnny Murtagh.

The 5-2 favourite never threatened, however, as up front Seamus Heffernan galvanised Hard Rock City to get back up and nail Warriors Key having been passed by that rival inside the last.