Opera completes hat-trick in grand style for Elliott

THE tremendous success story of Gordon Elliott continued at Killarney last night when his Grand Opera completed a hat-trick in the featured Ladbrokes’ Gold Rush Handicap Hurdle.

Speaking from England, where he has runners at Newton Abbot today, Elliott said: “I wasn’t going to run him because of the ground, but decided to as the money was so good.

“The plan is the Cambridgeshire at Newmarket, but he could run over hurdles at Bellewstown next week before that.”