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Spring Sale four-year-old maiden.

A son of Malinas, the €25,000 Derby sale purchase made all the running and led before the final fence to outpoint Little Big Kev by four lengths

“He’s a nice horse who has always gone well at home and he’ll now go to a sale,” Keating said of the close relation to Made In Taipan.

Derek O’Connor made his only ride at the meeting a winning one by landing the first division of this same race on Sam Curling’s Western Ha rm ony , who finishe d se ve nt h on his de bu t at D ro ma ha ne three wee ks earlier

The Champs Elysees gelding surged to the front 50 yards out with an explosive burst to beat Village Master by one and a half lengths

Bertie Finn, a former minor hurler for Wexford, continued his stellar season by combining

A promisin g se cond at Toomebridge five days earlier, Neil McCluskey’s six-year-old justified his position at the top of the market by following up three consecutive placed finishes in recent weeks to beat an improved Ballydangan by a length and a half

“It was a better race at Toomebridge, so we thought he would win today,” McCluskey said.

“He kicked me in the field last night and I think I may have broken a rib, but I kept that one quiet today. I might look at the hunter chase at Downpatrick for him.”

Just two non-favourites were among the winners, with Raceview Road the biggest priced when the 8-1 shot was guided to victory by three and a half lengths in the Derrylecka Bedding Centre five-year-old geldings’ maiden by Noel McParlan.