An hour to savour at Down Royal

YESTERDAY’S journey north to Down Royal was certainly worthwhile and any day you have a treble is a very good one.

Gimli’s Rock won the Grade 2 Hurdle really well and had a lot of good horses behind him, including Summit Meeting, who stayed all the way to the line in his first run since finishing fourth in Cheltenham last March. He should improve from that.

Gimli’s has improved so much recently though. He’s been going right through the summer so I knew he was fit enough. He wouldn’t have been in love with the ground but he did it very well indeed.