Rivage D'Or finally gets there

Rivage D'Or a beaten favourite in seven of his ten starts since arriving in Ireland, headed the market again in the Osborne's Solicitors Handicap Hurdle but this time he got the job done under Bryan Cooper to complete a double for his owners Gigginstown House Stud who half an hour earlier were on the mark with Roi Du Mee at Naas.

Rivage D'Or got the better of his Dessie Hughes-trained stable companion Raz De Maree by three parts of a length. The front-running mare Ballinahow Lady finished three lengths back in third.

Hughes said: "That's the way we would have liked it to happen as we'd like to run Rivage D'Or in the Pertemps Final and he needed 4 or 5Ibs more to get in.

"They are two good staying horses and the other fellow (Raz De Maree) will win another one. He needs a stiffer test."