Kennoway back in winning groove before hols

It was 7/1 bar in the concluding Frank Hannon Memorial Handicap Chase at Roscommon and it didn't get any better for backers of the 'fancied ones' on the National Hunt section of the card when Rockyaboya the well-backed 6/4 favourite, unseated Patrick Mullins at the fourth last. A pound out of the handicap, Kennoway was the one to step forward and take his chance, prevailing in the extended two and a half miler under Robbie Colgan.

Claire O'Connell 's attractive Court Cave seven-year-old, led after the fourth and ridden before the last the 9/1 chance kept on strongly on the run-in to defeat Sea Master by seven and a half lengths.

O'Connell disclosed: "I was a bit disappointed when I only saw four fences (on the circuit). He'd need ten!

"It wasn't soft enough for him in Killarney and it was a tighter track (third there behind Wrong Turn eight days ago).

"He's a relentless galloper and he'll go on his holidays now."

Indeed with only two fences in the straight as opposed to the normal three and ten jumping efforts in total, Edward O'Grady withdrew Solstice Knight (TW & EM)