Duplication scored a second course and distance win in the Crowne Plaza Race & Stay Rated Race at Dundalk today when providing jockey Donnacha O’Brien with a 40th winner of the season and boost his albeit reasonably small prospects of winning a first Jockeys’ Championship.

The son of Requinto won over today’s five furlongs trip at the Co Louth venue last December, also under Donnacha O'Brien, and the pair today scored a half length win over Ice Cold In Alex

Winning trainer Joseph O’Brien was absent but brother Donnacha O'Brien, who trails Colin Keane by 15 winners at the head of the Jockeys’ Championship, later commented “he had a bit of a break and he had a good run the last time so he probably improved a little bit from it.

“He has a little look when he gets there but did in nicely and I'd said if something had came to me he might have gone on again.”

Quotes from Gary Carson