Tasty 55/1 treble for O’Brien and a two-day ban

Joseph O’Brien emerged from rain-lashed Ballybrit last night with a 55/1 treble, achieved on Eye Of The Storm, Cairdiuil and Chamonix, and a two-day careless riding ban handed down after a manoeuvre on Chamonix before the halfway point of the featured Ardilaun Hotel Oyster Stakes.

But O’Brien only increased his lead over Pat Smullen by one, 71-68, thanks to a double for the former champion on Consonance and Three Kingdoms.

The twice-raced Chamonix, which beat Galway Plate victor Bob Lingo in Killarney, proved a facile winner of the listed Oyster Stakes, taking command at the top of the hill before galloping on relentlessly to slam stable-companion Demurely by six lengths.