Bellewstown report: Treble delight for Jack Kennedy

Lieutenant Highway completed  a hurdling four-timer for the in-form jockey

THREE-MENDOUS: Jack Kennedy celebrates his superb Bellewstown treble. Picture: Healy Racing

Back from a four-day whip ban and a family wedding in America, the National Hunt season’s leading rider Jack Kennedy starred with a superb treble in Bellewstown, highlighted by the performance of progressive 3-1 favourite Lieutenant Highway in the Bective Stud Mullacurry Cup Handicap Hurdle.

The second leg of a double for Gordon Elliott, the five-year-old Fame And Glory gelding was soon in front, dictated the pace and, when the pack closed in the straight, stretched clear to beat Guiri by six and a half lengths.