Billy Lee stole the show under the Dundalk lights when guiding home Jalmira to a popular Listed triumph.
The Charlie Swan-trained mare was backed in at all rates, before being eventually sent off the 7-4 favourite for the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Cooley Fillies Stakes.
And those who had invested in the seven-year-old will be forever grateful to Lee, who ensured Jalmira was prominent from the outset.
The young jockey chose to assert full control at the two-furlong pole and stayed strong to repel the late challenge of Kylayne by a length and a quarter.< Aspectoflove followed up her last-time-out course and distance success by scraping home in the Styles & Beauty Magazine Race.
Mick Kinane was always close to the pace on the John Oxx-trained filly and hit the front entering the final two furlongs, where main market rival Rain Delayed also threw down a challenge.
The pair were locked together in a duel for the line and Aspectoflove (5-4 favourite) just got there by a short head.< Romeo's On Fire had to be brave to take the boylesports.com Handicap for the Ger Lyons team.
Trapped at the back as they swung into the straight, Mick Hussey waited for the gaps to appear and the 12-1 shot took a bit of buffeting as he squeezed through to beat Soap Wars by half a length.
Pat Smullen tightened his grip on the jockeys' title race with a comfortable victory on Full Title in the Cuchulainn Crystal Handicap.
The Reg Roberts-trained five-year-old (7-2) went on a furlong and a half out and was kept up to his work to hold Redelusion by a length and a quarter, extending Smullen's lead over Fran Berry to six.
Tommy Stack's juvenile Andalacia made short work of her rivals on her introduction in the boylepoker.com Median Auction Maiden.
The daughter of Choisir (7-1) was sent up to challenge leader Takasima two furlongs out by Wayne Lordan and showed plenty of speed to go clear.
The well-backed Magic Mornings put in a challenge through the final furlong but was always well held and there was a length and a half in it at the l
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