Mick Kinane warmed up for tomorrow's (Saturday) big race ride at Ascot aboard Montjeu in the King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes by completing an opening race double at Tipperary yesterday evening.
The reigning champion jockey, who returned to action at Naas on Wednesday having been sidelined with a back injury since the Irish Derby weekend, was enjoying his first success since the enforced lay-off.
Sequoyah made all in the Cashel EBF Maiden, and was pushed out to beat market-rival Mood Indigo by one and a half lengths - the pair remarkably stretching a distance clear of the other five runners. Aidan O'Brien was delighted to have his stable jockey back saying: 'Mick is feeling well, and that's the main thing.'
The Ballydoyle trainer will give the Sadler's Wells filly a break before 'something like the Moyglare', while the much vaunted Freud is likely to tackle Group 1 company next month in either the Heinz 57 Phoenix Stakes at Leopardstown or go to France for the Prix Morny.
Kinane joined Pat Smullen at the head of the jockeys championship on the 42 winner mark when taking the Barronstown Stud Handicap with Jacks Estate. The Declan Gillespie-trained topweight also made all the running but Kinane had to work much harder to get the five-year-old home three quarters of a length ahead of Handsome Anna.
Harry Rogers, who recorded his biggest training success todate with Livadiya in the Golden Pages Handicap at Leopardstown last Saturday, made it four wins in six days when Nick The Butler survived mistakes at the final two flights to take the Brian Winston Maiden Hurdle under Donal Bromley.
