Ger Lyons hits landmark 1,000th career win with Roscommon success

Offiah and Colin Keane with groom Dan Whitpoff and Shane Lyons after winning the Class Grass Handicap. Picture: Healy Racing

Ger Lyons notched the 1,000th winner of his training career when Offiah landed the Class Grass Handicap in Roscommon.

Lyons sent out his first winner at Navan in October 1994, and Royal Ascot success came in 2007 through Elletelle in the Queen Mary, ridden by Johnny Murtagh. It was also Murtagh in the saddle when Lightening Pearl won the Cheveley Park Stakes at Newmarket in 2011.