Roi Du Mee leaves Pady trailing
The Gordon Elliott-trained six-year-old, meeting the odds-on favourite 31lb ‘wrong’, dictated the pace, jumping well, and had Barry Geraghty’s mount in trouble when that rival made a mistake at the third last.
The favourite threatened to mount a challenge briefly before the second last. But Roi Du Mee galloped on relentlessly to triumph by 16 lengths.