OUT of luck at Royal Ascot earlier, the O’Brien brothers, Joseph and Donnacha, kept home fires burning on this Leopardstown programme with three winners between them.

Joseph was first out of the traps, as his Thoroughbred Racing Syndicate-owned Relaxed Artist (9/2) took the opening Irish EBF Auction Series Race. This was the start of a brace that the Piltown operator was to share with jockey Declan McDonogh.