KILCARRY Bridge landed the biggest prize of his career at Gowran Park on Saturday when he picked up nearly €30,000 for the Grade 2 Holden Plant Rentals Shamrock Handicap Chase. The 10-year-old son of Balakheri was born to his unraced dam Echo Queen when she was only a three-year-old. He is one of a pair of winners to date for that daughter of Luso, the other being the Gamut gelding New Kid In Town, an entry for this year’s €500,000 BoyleSports Irish Grand National.

Bred by William Delaney, Kilcarry Bridge is another blacktype winner in his immediate family, though he is some way off his close relation Hear The Echo in terms of ability. That son of the former Garryrichard Stud sire Luso is a full-brother to Kilcarry Bridge’s dam. Two of his three wins over fences were noteworthy as he captured the Grade 1 Irish Grand National at Fairyhouse and the Grade 2 Paddy Fitzpatrick Memorial Novice Chase at Leopardstown