Toner the Star

Toner D’Oudairies upstaged fellow Gigginstown-owned performers Roi Do Mee and First Lieutenant in the Grade 3 Star Chase in Punchestown yesterday.

The 8/1 shot gave trainer Gordon Elliott his third consecutive win in the race, denying his better-fancied stable-companion Roi Du Mee — bidding for a hat-trick in the race — with easy-to-back 4/5 favourite First Lieutenant two lengths away third.

Toner D’Oudairies, the second leg of a double for jockey Bryan Cooper (originally due to partner the withdrawn Tofino Bay) got the better of front-running Roi Du Mee (Davy Condon) on the run-in to score by three-quarters of a length.