Gordon Elliott© Photo Healy Racing
Gordon Elliott completed a double at Naas today as his Eyewitness (13/2) showed the benefit of a previous outing to comfortably win the concluding Tipper Road (Pro-Am) Bumper under jockey Jamie Codd.
The son of leading flat stallion Dark Angel was third over course and distance on debut in January and today showed professionalism when beating the Charles Byrnes trained morning gamble Hashtag Watt (7/2) by four and a quarter lengths.
Elliott, earlier successful with the J.P. McManus owned Minella Till Dawn in a handicap chase, later commented “he’s come forward a lot from his first run. He was very green the last day and we could ride him the way we wanted to ride him today.
“He stays and is a nice horse. He probably doesn’t want real winter ground.
“He could mix it between the Flat and bumpers and will go over hurdles. He’ll do everything.”
Quotes from Alan Magee
