Via Con Dios made it three wins from four starts when on the liveliest ground he'd encountered, the Orpen gelding held on by a neck in the Stepaside Handicap. Winning rider, Johnny Murtagh was completing a treble having earlier won aboard You'll Be Mine and Poet

Successful trainer, John Hayden said afterwards: "We'll keep him handicapping. Johnny said he is improving. A mile and one on softish ground is far enough for him, he just got found out over a furlong further last time. Ground dependent we'll step him back up to the same trip at the Curragh at the next meeting."