Stick with Love Lockdown

THE progressive Love Lockdown can complete a hat-trick of successes in the Listed Kerry Spring Water Rochestown Stakes at Cork tomorrow.

An easy winner of his maiden at Leopardstown, the son of Verglas then produced a really good display at Naas, proving too strong for Aidan O’Brien’s well-regarded Beethoven.

The Ballydoyle horse was backed from 5-4 to correspondings odds-on, but the selection dug deep to beat him by a head, after a protracted tussle through the final furlong,.