Another Dundalk double for Bolger

In double form two weeks ago, Jim Bolger was on the mark again at Dundalk last night when Kevin Manning provided him with another brace of winners, Naoise and Gort Na Mona.

Having shown improvement when second to Lord Kenmare last week, four-year-old Naoise — owned by the trainer’s wife Jackie — got off the mark when justifying 11/4 favouritism in the first division of the Irish Stablestaff Assocationa Handicap, getting the better of Forbidden City inside the final furlong.

Gort Na |Mona, runner-up to Prince Of Fire two weeks ago, earned a valuable winning bracket when completing the Bolger/Manning double in the concluding [e-mail] Maiden.