Another first for Row

First Row once again demonstrated his appetite for a battle as he got up in the dying strides to grab the McDonogh Properties Chase at Galway.

Old stager Adamant Approach looked all over the winner as Ruby Walsh afforded himself a look round on the turn for home, but a never-say-die Roger Loughran was pumping away in behind on the Dessie Hughes-trained five-year-old.

The pair settled down to fight it out and it was First Row, a winner in similar fashion at Kilbeggan last time out, who found most, with half a length separating the pair at the line in the €50,000 contest.