More boom than bust as Lyons bags another double

LOCAL trainer Ger Lyons notched his second double in four days when Boom To Bust and Chocolate Hills triumphed at Bellewstown last night.

The progressive Boom To Bust, another winner for Big Bad Bob; justified odds-on favouritism in the one-mile Irish Stallion Farms Maiden, making virtually all the running under Johnny Murtagh and drawing clear in the last furlong and a half to beat longshot Gordon Lord Byron convincingly by four lengths.

Trainer Lyons, also in double form at Dundalk on Sunday, was not present. But his brother and assistant Shane commented: “He deserved that and has improved with every run. They went a nice gallop and Johnny said he showed a lot of speed, which is encouraging.