Galway Plate joy for Joseph and JP

Early Doors took top spot for Joseph O'Brien and JP McManus in the Tote Galway Plate on earlier this evening

Winner Early Doors and Mark Walsh (right) clear the first fence in the Galway Plate. Picture: Healy Racing

Emulating his father’s achievements may present as a lifetime’s work for Joseph O’Brien but he is steadily ticking them off, and the Galway Plate became the latest to fall to the Owning Hill trainer as maiden chaser Early Doors landed the feature at Ballybrit.

Twenty-four years after Life Of A Lord completed back-to-back wins in the race for his father, Aidan, O’Brien junior won the race with a horse who has already given him a Cheltenham Festival success.