Trainer Joe Murphy registered his fifth winner of the month when well backed Fit For Function landed the Racecourse Of The Year Handicap at Leopardstown today, under a canny front-running ride from Gary Carroll.

Carroll and Fit For Function kicked for home turning0in and in the end Carroll preserved enough to enable the gelding record a three parts of a length win over Blairmayne

Afterwards Murphy stated “Gary's enterprising ride stole the day as I thought the favourite (Balirmayne) was a certainty.

“He's a very hard horse to get fit but I don't think he'll have any problem getting seven (furlongs).

"I think he would be an ideal horse for Galway but it depends what the handicapper does with him."

By Tom Weekes, quotes from Gary Carson