18+ | Commercial Content | T&Cs apply | Wagering and T&Cs apply | Play Responsibly | Advertising Disclosure
icon

Codd rides 1st Galway Festival winner

Sun 31st Jul 2016, 18:35

Mountain Rock (Jamie Codd) beats First Figaro (Finny Maguire)Mountain Rock (Jamie Codd) beats First Figaro (Finny Maguire)
© Photo Healy Racing

Adrian Keatley trained his second winner at Galway 2016 after Millefiori's victory on Wednesday when Mountain Rock and Jamie Codd took the concluding Fr. Breen Memorial (Pro-Am) INH Flat Race as racing at Ballybrit's festival concluded.

Odds-on favourite First Figaro was asked for more by Finny Maguire in the final half mile, and he looked a likely scorer when striking on from over two furlongs out.

However he couldn't cope with Mountain Rock's surge in the final furlong and three parts of a length split them at the line.

"That's my first winner at the Galway Festival after about 15 or 16 years trying. It's a real monkey off my back," revealed Codd.

"This horse is not too bad and really battled all the way to the line."

(AM & EM)