Tuesday double for McDonogh at Ballybrit

Moynalty jockey Declan McDonogh was in double form at Galway this evening where he won the €120,000 feature with the Andrew Slattrey-trained Creggs Pipes.

McDonogh followed up on that success 30 minutes later on board Beau Satchel for north county Dublin trainer Ado McGuinness.

The McDonogh clan must like Tuesday racing as Declan's father Des, who trains in Moynalty, had a winner at Ballinrobe last Tuesday!

This evening the front-running Creggs Pipes made it four-in-a-row in the €120,000 Colm Quinn BMW Mile Handicap after her Listed success at Killarney on the previous outing.

“I was in trouble for the first part because I had two hands on the right rein as she was hanging,' commented the Moynalty man in a post-race interview on RTE with Robert Hall and Ted Walsh.

'Then on the last little bend she realised she was going right-handed and she cocked on to the rail straight away,' he added. 

The younger McDonogh took the Tuesday bragging rights when he made it two in the next with Beau Satchel, which was winning for the third successive year at the festival and also won this race last year.

Beau Satchel is owned by a syndicate, the Total Recall Racing Club - a group of prison officers from Mountjoy.

And Gordon Elliott got his first Galway winner of the week when Water Sprite, the lesser fancied of his two runners, won the last race on the card for local (Meath) owners.

The other Elliott runner (Automated) finished third.