Karasi made history as he became the first foreign raider to win back-to-back runnings of the world’s richest steeplechase, the Nakayama Grand Jump in Japan.

TRAINER Pat Martin continued his impressive strike rate at Downpatrick with a double yesterday on a day when the home team clinched a clear-cut victory over the visitors in the Ireland v Australia jump jockeys challenge.

Give The Slip narrowly failed to land an historic victory in the Tooheys New Melbourne Cup at Flemington.