Aidan O'Brien's smart filly Homecoming Queen continued her dramatic improvement with a superb display in the Lanwades & Staffordstown Studs Stakes at the Curragh.
Well beaten in maidens earlier this year, the three-parts sister to Dylan Thomas made all the running under Joseph O'Brien and had her rivals in trouble from some way out.< Absolute Crackers gave chase down the straight but she was never a threat as Homecoming Queen (5-2) stretched away to take the Listed event by four and a quarter lengths.< Eton Rifles followed up his Ayr Gold Cup second with an emphatic victory in the Go Racing In Kildare Waterford Testimonial Stakes for Newmarket handler David Elsworth.
Johnny Murtagh hit the front a quarter of a mile out on the 5-4 favourite, who was untroubled in holding Seeharn by three-quarters of a length to pick up a Listed prize.
Dermot Weld's 5-2 joint-favourite Sapphire cleared away in the final furlong to take the Go Racing In Kildare Finale Stakes (Listed) by four and three-quarter lengths under Pat Smullen.
John Oxx landed a treble highlighted by 4-1 favourite Minsk s demolition job in the Hacketts Bookmakers Irish Cesarewitch, the three-year-old leading over a furlong out under Sam James and sauntering five and a half lengths clear.
Pick of the action at Limerick was the ladbrokes.com Munster National, which went to the in-form team of Noel Meade and Paul Carberry with Muirhead
The eight-year-old (10-1) was going by far the best in the straight and when Carberry briefly released the brakes, he coasted away to beat favourite Bideford Legend by a length and three-quarters.
Paul Moloney served it up from the front on West With The Wind (3-1) and the Evan Williams-trained six-year-old comfortably kept odds-on Loosen My Load at bay to win the PricewaterhouseCoopers Chase by five and a half lengths.
Ted Walsh's Royal Reveille was sent off the 4-6 favourite for the Greenmount Park Novice Hurdle and gave supporters no worries, leading all the way under Ruby Walsh and forging 12 lengths clear.
