Double celebration for O’Brien

TERENCE O’BRIEN, who trains at Carrigtwohill, Co Cork, had cause for a double celebration yesterday.

In the morning O’Brien’s wife, Audrey, presented him with twins - a boy and a girl - and then at Clonmel last night his Viaduct Bud landed the first division of the Clonmel Hospice Support Group Handicap Hurdle.

Beautifully handled by under-rated, but in-form, Tom Doyle, Viaduct Bud powered clear from the final flight to beat Inter Mutanda by three lengths.