Sam Ewing wins in style aboard Ash Tree Meadow 

Early Doors became the second Galway Plate winner to be successful on the card when he won the Dan Linehan’s Celebrating 50 Years Of Hospitality Hunters’ Chase.

KILLARNEY WINNER: Ash Tree Meadow and Sam Ewing win the Boylesports An Riocht Steeplechase (Grade 3). Pic: Healy Racing

County Antrim jockey Sam Ewing broke his Killarney duck in great style by riding a Monday double which included the featured Grade Three Boylesports An Riocht Chase aboard the Gordon Elliott-trained Ash Tree Meadow. Last year’s Galway Plate winner made every yard of the running, jumped with great enthusiasm and accuracy, and had his three rivals in trouble from some way out.

“He did it very well,” said Ewing. “His jumping is exceptional, he takes lengths everywhere, so I was happy to drive on with him, and I had plenty left from a long way out. I was waiting for something to come to me going down to the last, but he kept finding and won well at the line.”