Delight for Kerry Lee as Top Gamble lands graded race at Easter Festival

In recent seasons we’ve become accustomed to the leading Irish trainers successfully plundering big prizes on the other side of the Irish Sea but the tide was stemmed this weekend at Fairyhouse as the Kerry Lee-trained Top Gamble became the fourth British raider to land a graded race at the Easter Festival, when he justified favouritism in the Normans Grove Chase.

On Sunday, rookie trainer Lee claimed her first Grade One success when Kylemore Lough took the Ryanair Gold Cup, while on Monday afternoon Dan Skelton’s Value At Risk and Kim Bailey’s Emily Gray proved too good for the home guard in their respective contests.

Despite some concerns about the drying conditions, Top Gamble was allowed to take his chance, and he rewarded that decision with a decisive victory.