< Hail Caesar led home better fancied stablemate Drumbeat to give Aidan O'Brien a 1-2 in the Gowran Park Race.

The 9-2 winner was sent straight to the head of affairs by Sean Levey and he soon built up a substantial lead.

Drumbeat was settled in behind rivals and after failing to get a run, he was pulled wide by Seamus Heffernan but it was all too late and he was four and a half lengths behind his stable companion at the line.

Levey said: "Aidan said to ride him as I found him. He was keen enough in first time blinkers, and stayed on really well."

O'Brien and Heffernan had earlier combined with At First Sight who justified odds-on favouritism in the Irish Stallion Farms European Breeders Fund Maiden.

The Galileo colt, fifth on his debut at the Curragh, was pushed up to challenge Cool Marble at the furlong marker and eased away to score by four and a half lengths.

Heffernan said of the 4-9 chance: "It was probably a good maiden at the Curragh and he's come on from the run.

"You will see the best of him when he goes up further in distance."< Tarankali stretched right away from his rivals to land the Bennettsbridge Maiden under Mick Kinane.

John Oxx's three-year-old was sent off the 11-8 favourite to open his account at the seventh attempt and he powered clear to score by six lengths from Grandiflora

Oxx's assistant Jimmy O'Neill said: "He was a little bit disappointing at Roscommon last month but appreciated the easier ground today. He'll go for a handicap over a mile."< Le Diablo Rouge made a winning return from a near two year absence in the Castlecomer Apprentice Handicap to give trainer Declan Leigh his first ever Flat winner, while Belle's Ridge took the Kilkenny Handicap.

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