Gimli the rock Joe perished on

On an afternoon when Galway Hurdle hero Rebel Fitz paraded after the second race, the veteran Tommy Treacy took the riding honours with a double at Cork yesterday.

Treacy got married on June 29 and these were his first successes since that day. “I have to keep it going now, I have a family to feed”, quipped the pilot.

He completed the brace aboard Jessica Harrington’s Gimli’s Rock, the outsider of the three runners, in the www.mallow.ie Hurdle.