Ruby at the double

FRESH from his Scottish Champion Hurdle success on Sanctuaire at Ayr on Saturday, Ruby Walsh doubled-up on Shifa and Allee Garde for Willie Mullins at Gowran Park yesterday.

Ninth behind Bobs Worth in the Albert Bartlett at Cheltenham, Allee Garde got up in the dying strides to deny On The Way Out by a short-head in the three-mile www.gowranpark.ie Hurdle.

Mullins said: “He’s a real chaser, from the same family as Clan Royal. All he does is stay. He had a hard enough race today but, as long as he’s okay, he’ll run in the three-mile Grade 2 ‘novice’ on the second day of Punchestown.”