GER Lyons moved into double figures for the season and maintained his impressive start to the campaign by sending out a one-two in the most valuable race on the card, the Thesaurus Software Rated Race, where Jarvis outpointed Neo Soul.

Both three-year-olds are owned by the triumvirate of Sean Jones, David Spratt and Lynne Lyons and they dominated the finish after making the most of their decent draws in this five-furlong affair.

Jarvis took 11 goes to get off the mark last season and this was his first start since landing a Dundalk maiden in early December.

Colin Keane had the 9/2 chance showing in front against the far rail from early on and Jarvis stuck to his task well to hold off his stablemate by half a length with the top-weight, Harmony Rose, a further length away in third.

“The winner has strengthened up and being gelded has helped him,” reported the trainer’s brother Shane. “Both horses have been leading our two-year-olds for the winter and they have been training well. In that grade, around those tracks and when they get their ground, they are fun horses.”

Godhead gets up

A fine run for the combination of John McConnell and his son Cillian continued as Godhead (11/2) pounced late in the INPBA On Course Bookmakers Claiming Race over just short of a mile.

A third winner of the campaign for the father and son team, Godhead was getting off the mark on turf and was registering his first success for his current trainer having been picked up for €15,000 from a Leopardstown claimer last August.

Fox Leicester did everything right from the front and seemed sure to score inside the last quarter of a mile but needed the line badly late on and in the last couple of strides was nailed by Godhead for the The 119 Partnership

Reliable Teddy

Also enjoying an impressive run is Eddie Lynam who made it four winners from his last seven runners when the reliable Teddy Boy (4/1) secured the 47-65 rated five-furlong handicap for his wife Aileen.

This race was run in honour of A Case Of You whose career began with a maiden at the August meeting here in 2020.

Danny Sheehy, who has partnered Teddy Boy to three of his four wins, was on board the gelding whom he produced with a telling last furlong challenge to defeat the 117-race veteran Pillar by half a length.

AIDAN O’Brien made his only runner of the day a winning one as the 92-rated Sun King took advantage of a gilt-edged opportunity in the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Maiden over just short of a mile.

A runner-up to Sissoko and Wexford Native on his last two outings, the Galileo colt faced nothing of their calibre this time.

Seamie Heffernan’s mount was burdened with a wide draw but steadily got across to the rail to show in front before halfway and he retrained control of the race thereafter.

The evens favourite, who carries the colours of the late Sir Robert Ogden, maintained a useful lead for the duration of the straight to hit the line a length and a half ahead of the keeping on Zoffman.

The Ballydoyle representative could make a quick return to action in a €45,000 three-year-old handicap at Naas on Monday evening.

Duke strikes

Drombeg Duke’s understated yet unchecked progress up the ranks continued in the 47-70 Lougher Stables Handicap over just short of a mile.

Now a winner of three of his last five starts, the Cian and Philip McAuliffe-owned six-year-old added to his haul in assured fashion and looks like one that could further add to his tally.

The gelding was going easily for Gavin Ryan when he struck the front well over a furlong out and he soon moved clear before a two-and-a-quarter-length success over Miss Florentine.

This win continued a decent run for trainer Eoin McCarthy who has struck with three of his last 11 runners.

BY some distance the shortest priced favourite of the evening was Earl Of Tyrone and Paddy Twomey’s charge was an easy winner of the Ornan Kitchens Maiden over an extended mile and a half.

The Robert Moran-owned son of Australia, who was wearing a tongue-tie for the first time, didn’t enjoy the best of runs when a close third in a highly competitive Leopardstown handicap last month and this looked altogether easier which was reflected in a starting price of 1/5. The four-year-old came home with seven and half lengths to spare over Granville Street.

“I think he will gain confidence from that and hopefully he will be a nice horse for some bigger handicaps. He stays well and settles well and is a horse with plenty of options,” declared the winning rider.

Lariat improves

The chequered history of Lariat (11/2) took a turn for the better as he won his first race for close to four years in the second division of the awardsandgifts.ie handicap over a mile and three-quarters.

A horse who was the subject of a court case between Tattersalls and trainer Tom George and agent Alex Elliott late last year in which the verdict went the way of the first named, Lariat was breaking a 30-race losing run as he struck for Adrian McGuinness and Cian MacRedmond.

The Stars In The Sun Racing Syndicate-owned gelding saw off Tenth Amendment by half a length and is likely to have a mixed campaign for the summer.

Brave Fox

The first division of that staying handicap provided jockey Scott McCullagh with his first Bellewstown winner as Oliver McKiernan’s Fox Fearless (9/1) added this race to the Leopardstown handicap hurdle he won 13 months ago.

The six-year-old stole a march on his rivals inside the last couple of furlongs and went on to defeat the staying-on favourite Movie King by a length and a quarter.