Mark Nunan
Four for Lieutenant & three for Kennedy
Jack Kennedy with the Mullacurry Cup
© Photo Healy Racing
Lieutenant Highway is thriving and completed a four-timer in the Bective Stud Mullacurry Cup Handicap Hurdle.
The Fame And Glory five-year-old has won races in successive months since beginning his winning spree at Downpatrick in May, a victory that coincided with the fitting of cheekpieces for the first time.
Here he made all and went away from the second-last to readily beat Guri by six and a half lengths.
Winning rider Jack Kennedy was completing a treble after earlier wins on Wicklow Flyer and Shannon Glory
Gordon Elliott, sending out his second winner of the evening after Wicklow Flyer in the claimer, said: "Jack gave him a lovely ride, he is riding out of his skin.
"The horse keeps improving. He doesn't show a lot at home, but he keeps winning.
"He enjoyed that trip and I'd say he liked the ground as well. He's a nice horse.
"A fast run two miles would suit him. I'd say we will head to Listowel. I can't say he doesn't like soft ground, but he does like that nice ground
"It is great for Michael (Hanrahan, owner), he's having a great year and it will keep him happy."
Quotes from Michael Graham