By Sea Moon, The Moon Sea's Me maintained her unbeaten record with a win from an unpromising position at Clonmel today, landing the Kilmore Maiden Hurdle under a determined ride from Sam Ewing.

Under pressure in mid-division inside the first mile of today's race, Ewing was hard at work in fourth at the third-last but the mare stayed well, eventually led on the run-in and defeated 11/10 favourite The Folkes Tiara

The five year old mare had won a Monksgrange point-to-point for Aidan Fitzgerald in April, was subsequently purchased for €110,000 and today raced for absent trainer Gordon Elliott.

Ewing said “maybe the trip was a little bit sharp for her but she is honest and tough and jumped brilliantly the whole way around. She got there in the end.

“I had to keep filling her up, keep up the momentum and she was honest and was very good in the end. She was very clever jumping the whole way. Once we came down the hill on the nicer ground, she went away again and she picked up.

“She wants a little bit further than two miles!”