Patrick Mullins rode Manners Legend into third place, but if she wasn't a four-year-old filly carrying eleven stone he'd have been aboard his father Willie's impressive Kerry Petroleum INH Flat Race victor Bargy Lady (9/2).

On John 'Shark' Hanlon's Manners Legend (5/1), Patrick gave it a good go from the front, and he certainly kept going for longer than the nicely-supported favourite Act In Time (beaten nearly ninety lengths into eleventh of the thirteen).

Bargy Lady (Richie Deegan up), a daughter of Yeats, owned by the Oakroom Racing Club, led a furlong and a half out before bursting clear to account for The Last But One by fifteen lengths - much to the delight of her owners.

"She was very good - once she got there she sprinted away," commented Deegan.

"I'm not riding out at Willies or anything, and Patrick just rang me yesterday morning. He couldn't do the weight so I was delighted."

(AM & EM)