AFTER dominating the July Festival with seven winners, Gavin Cromwell enjoyed a good second day of the August meeting as he notched up a double which began when Flooring Porter won the Lougher Stables Maiden Hurdle which was restricted to horses that had never previously finished in the first three.

Flooring Porter was last heading out on the final circuit but steadily picked his way through the field eventually to score by seven lengths under Jonathan Moore. The 95-rated 7/1 chance is owned by the Flooring Porter Syndicate.

Jonathan Moore also took the mount on Cromwell’s progressive Lucky Road (5/1) in the Tote Backing Your Team Handicap Hurdle which was confined to horses owned by a syndicate or a racing club.

The hat-trick-chasing Lucky Road was some 16lbs higher than when he first won at Sligo in July but this didn’t matter to the Lucky Seven Syndicate-owned gelding. The four-year-old found plenty from two out to contain Walking On Glass – who was an odds-on shot to follow-up a success at Sligo last week – readily. Lucky Road has earnings of €22,500 yet cost his connections just €3,000 a year ago.

Sizing Malbay, whose six runs this season have come at just this track and Ballinrobe, won the Race Displays Handicap Hurdle just two days after running third to Happy Jacky at the western venue. The daughter of Flemensfirth was continuing a good run for jockey Sean O’Keeffe and she showed a good attitude to justify 11/4 favouritism.

She got the better of a sustained duel with Fly De Megaudais in the closing stages and lasted home by a neck from Trenchtown Rock. Stephen Mahon trains the reliable five-year-old for Con and Conor O’Brien.