Flanagan

Flanagan at Largo — who owns Largo — he’s the reason I love L.A. and he sort of took me in, I think of him like Fagin in “Oliver.”

The film, which opens nationwide on 4 April, follows McCardle as Edward, a gay Irish writer who finds himself at the mercy of his own elderly mum, played by Fionnula Flanagan, and three other mothers, abandoned for the weekend while their sons go off to enjoy themselves at a Pride event in Ibiza.

The 5-1 chance, ridden by Sean Flanagan for owner-trainer Barry Connell, won a dramatic race by 18 lengths from favourite Jonbon, whose progress was halted by a jumping mistake.

"I'm just the man on him today, Michael made him what he is," said Flanagan.

It comes after former Irish government minister Charlie Flanagan said Ireland should have established its own parallel inquiry.