Narrowly denied over course and distance last Saturday, the Aidan O’Brien-trained Wilshire Boulevard opened his account at the third attempt when justifying odds-on favouritism in the Irish Stallion Farms Median Auction 2-Y-0 Maiden in Navan last night.

Pineau De Re, ridden by Danny Mullins for his new boss Barry Connell, stormed to an emphatic win in the Toals Bookmakers Ulster Grand National in Downpatrick yesterday.

INXILE notched the eighth listed win of his career, and his fourth in Ireland this season, when making all to land the Abergwaun Stakes for the father and son combination of Dandy and Adrian Nicholls at Tipperary last night.