Flood on the mark at Cork

Francis Flood’s Slievecorragh recorded his fifth win over timber with a battling display in the J.P. McManus Hurdle at Cork.

The six-year-old’s last start in the National Hunt sphere was at the Punchestown Festival in April, but fit from a run on the Flat at Galway last week, the 3-1 chance was ridden prominently by Mark Walsh.