CO Kilkenny man Donagh Meyler has made a clean sweep of the Australia V Ireland Jockey Challenge, winning all three races.

First off to Murray Bridge on the Wednesday, Meyler was a two-length winner of the 2,400 metre top-weight flat race aboard Celtic Prince as teammate Rachael Blackmore took fourth.

The series wrapped up at Morphettville on Saturday with the first, a steeple over 3,500 metres. Rachael Blackmore was on the $2.60 favouirte, Abebe trained by Eric Musgrove but could only manage a distant fifth as that horse’s stablemate Pentomatic, with Meyler up, edged out the more fancied Ours, ridden by Martin Kelly to win by just over a length.

The final event was the hurdle over 3,200 metres. Legged up on the favourite Dane Hussler, a Team Hayes runner, Meyler made it a one-act affair strolling in for a four-length win to cap a perfect run. “It’s easy to do when you have good horses like that,” said Meyler.

“She jumped well, had an easy and was always going to take beating. It’s onwards and upwards from here for here.”

Ireland won the series 55-35.

ALLEN STRIKES

Still at Morphetville, Johnny Allen stuck to the flat, riding a double from three rides for Darren Weir, including the feature Penny Edition Stakes. He won the 1,400 metre listed event on the former French galloper Gailo Chop, by Deportivo, a 12-length eighth to Winx in the 2015 Cox Plate. “He showed his class, he can only get better,” observed Allen.