Lord Erskine brings up plenty of bets© Photo Healy Racing
Siobhan Rutledge kicked for home in the dip and it was the winning of the Tote Download The App Handicap in Tramore.
The 10-year-old gelding took a few lengths out of the pursuers on the run to the final quarter of a mile in this staying test and and he climbed the hill well to increase the gap.
It got tougher for him in the final 150 yards, but he had done enough as he saw off Teed Up (7/2) by a length and three-quarters. The winner was well backed from 12/1 in the morning down to an SP of 11/2. Longclaw 11/4 favourite, was the same distance away in third.
Trainer Harry Rogers said: "He probably just got first run on them. When Siobhan went for him, that was probably the winning of the race. He is not too fast nowadays but he gallops, that's the one thing about him.
"He has been a great servant, like his owner Jerry (Nolan) when he was here. Jerry died in the first week of December in 2021 and I lost my wife Mary a few weeks before that. Hopefully the two of them are looking down on us this evening.
"He might go to Killarney now next week if there is an ease in the ground. There is a two-mile handicap there and then he might end up in Galway, but it all depends on the ground, he just likes a like ease and there is a little ease in it there tonight."
Additional reporting by Donal Murphy
