64/1 Downpatrick treble for Elliott Ravenhill and Count Simon were his earlier winners, and Carrie Des Champs topped it off for Gordon Elliott in the concluding Irish Stallion Farms EBF Mares INH Flat Race at Downpatrick. Davy Russell was aboard the preceding Cullentra House Stables scorers but it was Lisa O'Neill that took the reins on Carrie Des Champs to bring up a 64/1 treble for Elliott. Owned and bred by Kenneth Alexander, Carrie Des Champs (10/1 into 7/1) was strong at the business end to account for her stable companion Melior by ten lengths. Elliott said afterwards: "We liked her and she came on a good bit from the last day. We'll go for a winners' mares' bumper in Perth in six or seven weeks time. The owner is from Scotland so we are going to go back over there with her. "The runner-up is grand, she wants a trip." On the treble meanwhile he quipped: "I haven't had one in about a month or six weeks! "I've got a good team behind me and owners and horses. Things just weren't right and we had to sit on our hands. I think we did the right thing and credit to the staff, they all worked hard." (MG & EM)
