Leading trainer Gordon Elliott saddled four winners on the opening day of the Ladbrokes Festival of Racing at Down Royal on Friday.
The two-day meeting has proven fruitful for the Co Meath handler in recent years and he unleashed a couple of his stable stars at the big races on day one.
The odds-on Pied Piper (1/8), who was third in the Triumph Hurdle at Cheltenham last March, landed the feature race of the day, the Grade Two WKD Hurdle by three-and-a-quarter lengths from David Garrick (18/1).
