Codd rides 1st Galway Festival winner

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)