Double moves Smullen back into lead in title race

PAT Smullen moved back into the lead in the title-race when sharing a 54/1 double with his boss Dermot Weld at Sligo yesterday.

The Khalid Abdullah-owned Thunder Bridge made an impressive debut in the opening two-year-old maiden while Second Glance, relishing the softening ground, opened her account in the concluding Sligo Champion Maiden to put Smullen on the 74-winner mark for the season, one ahead of Johnny Murtagh.

Thunder Bridge overcame being posted in stall one to bolt up in the Irish Stallion Farms Median Auction 2-Y-0 Maiden, taking command on the home turn before stretching clear to slam front-running favourite Dinger Belle by no less than thirteen lengths.