Oslot has bookies reeling in Plate romp

OSLOT became only the third British-trained horse to win the Galway Plate when landing a huge off-course and on-course gamble for Paul Nicholls and Ruby Walsh at Ballybrit yesterday.

A plan that was hatched by the mighty Nicholls, and carried out to perfection by Walsh, had the bookmakers reeling, as the 11-4 market-leader powered four lengths clear of Oodachee.

The classy six-year-old could be mapped as the likely winner a long way from home, as he lobbed along almost effortlessly in the hands of his ultra-confident pilot.