Fourth in last year’s big race at Ballybrit, The West’s Awake (10/1) gained free entry, and an exemption from balloting, for next month’s Galway Plate when landing the Galway Races Galway Plate Trial Handicap Steeplechase.

Hugh Morgan completed a quick double for Henry de Bromhead when Demain De L’aube (3/1) landed the AXA Smart Insurance Midlands National July 9th Opportunity Beginners Steeeplechase.

Tazaral (9/4) outclassed his rivals in the second division of the Thomastown Maiden to give Colin Keane a quick double after Zola Sakura half an hour earlier.

Ottoman Emperor rallied gamely to secure a follow up success in the Gowranpark.ie Handicap for Johnny Murtagh.