Streets paved with gold for McManus

STREETS OF GOLD, trained by Christy Roche for J P McManus, dug deep to land the paddypower.com Grand National at Cork yesterday.

Beautifully handled by Alan Crowe, he was produced to challenge early in the straight, after Operation Houdini and Garryowen Star had carried them along for much of the three miles and six trip.

Streets Of Gold, who is bred to win a Derby, got to the front between the last two fences and battled like a lion to hold Operation Houdini and The Last Derby.