Barry off the mark at Festival

Barry Geraghty clocked up his first winner of the Cheltenham Festival today when Simonsig won the Arkle Chase. Geraghty's mount was far from fluent early on and made one bad mistake down the back straight, but took over from long-time leader Overturn on the run for home. "It was harder than I thought," admitted Geraghty afterwards on Channel 4. "The ground was dead and maybe that didn't help and he missed one down the back which is unlike him," added the Meath man.