Full Nelson for Johnny!

Meath Chronicle / Cusack Hotels Sports Personality-of-the-Month for June, Johnny Murtagh, who partnered six winners at Royal Ascot last month, was on his travels again this weekend. And this time he was on board Mount Nelson for the Ballydoyle team in the Coral Eclipse Stakes at Sandown Park on Saturday (5th July). Murtagh had to use all of his experience to land yet another Group One event (worth over £280,000 to the winner) when he brought the Aidan O"Brien-trained four-year-old, which won at The Curragh and Saint Cloud last year, with a late run. Although Mount Nelson was hanging to the right in the closing stages, Murtagh pressed the leader inside the final furlong. Under a hard drive, Mount Nelson got to the front on the line for a short head victory over the 5/2 favourite Phoenix Tower.