Roi tops off good day for leading connections

There was a second Gigginstown House Stud winner on the day, and a third for Gordon Elliott at Navan when Poli Roi (£300,000 pound purchase) justified odds of 2/7 in the concluding Race Displays Event Signage (Pro/Am) INH Flat Race.

Elliott and winning jockey Jamie Codd had also enjoyed success in the point-to-pointing fields today, and here they were dealing with a horse that's hailed from the same sphere.

Finian's Oscar has put producers Harte/Logan and Denis Murphy in lights already this term, and Poli Roi was also under their tutelage when landing his Rockfield 'point' back in November.

Codd was aboard then as well, and here he sat quietly before pushing out the five-year-old inside the last to account for Impact Factor by two lengths.

"He's a nice horse but he's a horse for next year — a horse for down the road," said Elliott, earlier on the mark at Proudstown with Ball D'Arc and Sutton Place

"We like him a lot and Jamie said he'd come on a good bit from it as he had a good blow. He's a fair horse.

"He's a stayer like all the horses that Eddie (O'Leary) buys.

"He might run again, I'm not sure. We'll see how he comes out of it. Jamie said he'd definitely come on from the run so we'd be happy with that.

"He said he was probably in front too soon. In his point-to-point when he got to the front he pulled up as well.

"It's a good day again so we're happy enough."

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