Mixed fortunes for King

Johnny King experienced mixed fortunes on Amateurs Day in Cork, completing a his first double on Winter Magic and Operating and being suspended for five days for using his whip with excessive frequency on his first winner.

The Jimmy Mangan-trained Winter Magic, a three-time winner in the point-to-point sphere, stayed on dourly under King’s driving to deny The Tourand Man by three-quarters of a length in the Coolmore Stud N.H. Sires Maiden Hunters Chase and is now likely to go handicapping.

King followed-up when the previously disappointing Operating, in the familiar colours of Michael Buckley, got the better of Kashline in the corkracecourse.ie Beginners Chase.