Foot Solution, owned by the Troy Murphy Syndicate from Kildare, nominated by Leo Walsh, and bred by Con Guiney from Meelin, Co. Cork took the €40,000 prize when winning the Irish Cup at Limerick Racecourse yesterday.

DRESDEN CALL, trained in Tralee by Johnny Kelliher for the Dublin-based Lixnaw native Josephine McCarthy, captured his second All-Age Cup when lifting the Kingdom Cup and the €3,500 purse at Ballybeggan Park yesterday.

LEGENDARY Kerry trainer Pa Fitzgerald recorded his second J.P. McManus Irish Cup win in-a-row, and his sixth in all, when last season’s Boylesport Derby runner-up, Sandy Sea, landed the €80,000 winning prize for well- known owner Patsy Byrne (Duagh and London) at a well attended and highly successful Patrickswell meeting yesterday.

ASHMORE VIEW became the second northern dog to plunder a big southern prize this month when taking the J P McManus Irish Cup at Limerick Racecourse yesterday.