Gold In The Rivers and Jack Kennedy© Photo Healy Racing
Championship-chasing Jack Kennedy completed a timely Limerick double today with three days of suspensions to come next week, completing the feat on Gold In The Rivers (13/8) in the I.N.H. Stallion Owners EBF Maiden Hurdle.
Successful twice at Navan yesterday, Kennedy steered Miss Agusta to score for absent trainer Gordon Elliott earlier today with the pair doubling scores with easy winner Gold In The Rivers.
Kennedy incurred two suspensions at the recent Cheltenham festival and thus misses Irish rides on March 27, 28 and 30 but today's double moves him seven clear of six-time champion Paul Townend (115-108).
Townend had no rides at today's fixture and Kennedy quipped “if there were a few more days where Paul wasn't riding, it would make it handier. I'll keep tipping away and whatever happens I've had a brilliant season. There certainly won't be any complaints the way it ends up.”
Kennedy had finished second to another Elliott-trained horse Twoohthree on today's winner Gold In The Rivers at Leopardstown on March 4 and added “I didn't get a choice which horse to ride the last day as the winner (Twoohthree) hadn't a whole lot done, so nobody really knew what he was like.
“Gold In The Rivers is a lovely horse, is a big baby and did what we thought he could have done all along. The looser ground helped him as tacky ground had been catching him. Some of the Walk In The Parks also take a bit of time to mature mentally.
“That was an easy enough contest but hopefully can keep improving. He is a fine big horse.”
