Meade maintains good form for May

However, there was no dispute at Leopardstown when Wingingit and Shane Foley took the Leopardstown Handicap to follow up on a Navan victory last month.

'There is a three-year-old handicap worth €50,000 at Navan next Saturday, but I was worried that she would not get into it, she could go for that race in Navan now,' stated the Castletown man.

The Gavin Cromwell trained three-year-old Pandagren maintained the Meath flavour at the Foxrock track and took some good form into the race (second to Noel Meade's earlier winner at Navan last month)

Pandagreen hit the front a furlong out and had two lengths to spare at the post from the Eddie Lynam-trained The Tulip with the Michael Mulvany-trained Prove The Point in third making it a Meath one-two-three.

'She's a huge filly and this is a lovely big galloping track that suits her well, I'm not sure if the track will suit her as well, but she may go for the Ulster Oaks,' commented Cromwell who was denied a double by less than a length when Bottleofsmoke was edged into third place in an apprentice race (half-a-length and a neck).

Ger Lyons and Colin Keane were also flying the Meath flag when they scored with Camelback in a maiden, an American bred colt

DOWN ROYAL
The Meade-trained Silken Thomas and the McGuinness-trained All’s Quiet dead-heated for first place in the opening maiden hurdle at Down Royal while Gordon Elliott was also on the mark with Station Closed which is owned by the Gordon Elliott Racing Club.