Golden trainer Tommy Stack and Cork-born Wayne Lordan (19) had a night to remember at the Curragh on Friday when Serious Play, a gelded son of Brief Truce, landed the featured Goffs #100,000 Challenge.
Sent off at 11/1, the homebred finished fast to head Minashki well inside the final furlong for a one length success with British raider Roundtree (4/5-6/4-11/8f) a further 3 = lengths back in third.
'She's a big horse who will be a nice horse back end. We'll leave her alone for a while and sit on our laurels,' said Tommy Stack, who trains the juvenile for Dublin Graphic Designer Michael Begley, who also bred the winner of the #59,000 first prize.
Earlier in the evening Serious Play's connections played their part in the outcome of the 7f maiden when #130,000 Goffs purchase Specious, bred by the Tommy Stack/Michael Begley alliance, duly obliged on her debut for David Hanley and Jerry O'Dwyer.
Paul Scallan, who teams up with Aidan O'Brien's Ice Dancer in the Irish Derby on Sunday, won the Derrinstown-sponsored apprentice version aboard Chamela Bay (5/2-4/1), also trained by the Ballydoyle maestro.
Despite drifting in the betting, the full sister to last year's G3 Blandford Stakes scorer Chiang Mai quickened nicely after the 2f pole and forged clear to defeat outsider Kramer with the John Oxx-trained pair Deeply 3rd, after a slow start, and Paris In The Fall (11/4-2/1f) 4th.
Silver Dagger (12/1-10/1) easily landed the 1m handicap for Charles O'Brien, Niall McCullagh and J.P.McManus after which O'Brien remarked, 'He has promised more than he has delivered in the past but I thought over the last 3 weeks he had turned the corner mentally.'
A Jackpot Rollover of #11,066 will be an added attraction tomorrow after the victory of Andrew Heffernan's 14/1 shot Baku and Mark Flanagan in the 10f handicap put paid to any remaining units.
Pat Shanahan was seen at his brilliant best when conjuring up a winning drive aboard Con Collins' Pipisflying in the 5f handicap before he completed a 237/1 double on 33/1 newcomer Sadlers Wings in the finale.
