DOUNIKOS DOUBLE UP FOR ELLIOTT

DOUNIKOS gained his first win in more than a year to give trainer Gordon Elliott back-to-back victories (Folsom Blue last year) in the Boyle Sports Grand National Trial Handicap Chase at Punchestown. It was the eight-year-old’s first success since landing a Grade Two at Limerick on St Stephen’s Day in 2017. Elliott said: ‘For a big horse, he probably likes a bit of good ground. He’ll be an English or Irish National horse.’

In flying form: Monatomic, with Jack Kennedy up, falls at the last during the Richard Maher Memorial Rated Novice Steeplechase at Punchestown