The market spoke in favour of previous course winner Stealthy Tom (4/1 this morning, SP 5/4 fav) and he got the job done in the Shay Rooney Handicap Chase.

The Yeats gelding tracked the leaders under Shane Fitzgerald and moved past the pace-setting Presenting Cody between the final two fences. The eight-year-old went on to beat that rival by two and three quarter lengths with another dozen lengths back to Shes Some Doll in third.

Winning trainer Enda Bolger said: "Horses for courses and he got a lovely ride from Shane. He is a half-brother to Gilgamboa so didn't pick it up off the side of the road!

"Hopefully he'll come back here in July but banks' racing will be his job down the road with obviously Punchestown next year a target."

It was a second winner for JP McManus at Killarney after Celestial Horizon and his daughter Sue Ann was successful with Amortentia on the Flat at Naas.

Quotes from Tom Weekes