Carberry has armchair ride on Like The Da

PAUL Carberry doubled-up on Cottage Oak and Like The Da on a good day for favourite-backers at Down Royal yesterday.

On the eve of the Punchestown Festival, Carberry had an armchair ride onboard 5/4 market choice Like The Da, which gained compensation for an unlucky defeat at Ballinrobe on Wednesday when making all to land the Daily Mirror Handicap Hurdle comfortably at the expense of Uncle Taffy.

A last flight mistake cost Like The Da at Ballinrobe. But there were no worries for his supporters this time as he recorded his second win in three starts and provided County Galway handler David Kelly with his second winner in twenty-four hours.