Courageous Fit the Cove registers fifth success at Galway

Veteran course specialist Fit The Cove proved the toast of punters on the final day of the 2012 Galway Festival as Harry Rogers’ charge landed the Galway Shopping Centre Handicap in courageous style, providing jockey Chris Hayes with the first leg of a double and proving the only successful favourite on Family Day at Ballybrit.

Described by his trainer as “incredible”, Fit The Cove got the better of One Of Three inside the final furlong to triumph by two and a half lengths, with his stable-companion Cheval Rouge a close third.

Now a ten-year-old, Fit The Cove was registering his fifth success over course and distance in a race which he won, under Michael Kinane, way back in 2004.