CO Monaghan-born apprentice Conor McGovern, who moved to England in mid-March, landed one of the most historic races in Britain on Wednesday when Waarif won the Carlisle Bell Handicap over a mile.

The winner is trained by McGovern’s boss David O’Meara who had given the 22-year-old from Clones his first success in Britain two days earlier when Montague justified his position as favourite in a six-furlong claimer at Wolverhampton.