Tempo lands feature for in-form Elliott

Gordon Elliott and Jack Kennedy can do little wrong at present and the pair teamed up for yet another winner as Tempo Mac took the featured Fast Shipping Bellewstown Handicap Hurdle.

Elliott set the racing world alight by sending out seven winners on Thursday between Perth and Bellewstown, while pony racing sensation Kennedy has already ridden 11 winners since starting out under rules less than two months ago.

Tempo Mac, available at 6/1 earlier in the day and supported on track from 11/2 into 9/2 favourite, was far from fluent at the final two flights.

However the five-year-old gelding was brave in a driving finish, and got the better of top-weigh Rawnaq (conceding 26lb) by a neck. Rupert Lamb kept on well from the last to finish just a length back in third.

Elliott, "We have a lovely bunch of horses in for the summer and they are all running well.

"He missed the last three hurdles but Jack is riding well, and he's a good lad. He's patient and does what he's told.

"I'm delighted for the owner John McGovern. It's a nice pot to win and I think this horse can win on the flat as well.

"I had to run him back with the penalty but I didn't enter him next week in case I would be tempted to run him again.

"I'm not sure he's a horse to go up the hill at Galway. I think he's more speed."

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