Mortal and Blackmore win a thriller

Mrs Lovett scores for Elliott and Russell

They went a good gallop and Davy said she enjoyed herself, jumped well and liked the ground. Looking at that maybe she’s improving a bit and is going the right way.

Russell and Elliott at double with Duca De Thaix

Lone Wolf devours front runner to give O'Brien a double

He did well because it looked like Willie’s horse (Defy De Mee) had got away. He jumped well and Mark said he settled well for him. Sarah bought him as a store (for 33,000 euro). He’s a big, good-looking horse and he has an engine. He’ll jump a fence eventually, and hopefully he’ll make a nice hurdler as well. He’d have no problem going two and a half but I thought he showed pace from the third last up to the line. It’s hard to make up ground when something gets away from you like that. I was quite impressed with him. He’ll have to race somewhere between now and the Dublin Racing Festival, so he’ll probably go somewhere over Christmas. You don’t like going straight into good races but sometimes you have to.

O'Brien fires in another treble

Nobody Home saunters in for Hayes

I said to Brian going out if nobody else is going on then take a chance on it. We’ve been holding him up so many days and he just doesn’t see it out. We were lucky the loose horse came up and joined him. He would have pulled up big time if he hadn’t been there. Brian said he stayed on with the loose horse and it really did him a favour.

Desir Du Large brings up O'Brien's ninth winner in two days