Lucky break for Sir Des Champs

SIR DES CHAMPS proved a fortunate odds-on winner of the Grade 2 Greenmount Park Novice Chase in Limerick yesterday.

Initiating across-the-card big-race doubles for both trainer Willie Mullins and Gigginstown House Stud, the French bred five-year-old was a close second, with Emmet Mullins at work, when leader Knokfierna, ducked right and ran out at the second last fence.

Mullins later suggested: “I thought I had Knockfierna covered when she made her exit,” an opinion not shared by most observers.