Elliott delighted to get winner for Russell Gordon Elliott was delighted to train a first winner for leading jockey Davy Russell's father, Jerry Russell, at Bellewstown on Thursday evening. After filling the runner-up spot on his first start for Elliott at Ballinrobe a couple of weeks earlier, Youghal By The Sea was the 4-5 favourite to go one better in the Ladies Pro/Am Flat Race and claimed a thrilling victory by a nose under Lisa O'Neill. Elliott said: "I'm about 10 years of asking Jerry to give me a horse to train and I was only third in line to get this horse! "We have been friends for a long time. He told me he would give me a winner some day and he did. I'm delighted to train a winner for him on his 78th birthday. "He'll go over hurdles now, he's more of a hurdle horse and wants a trip."
