KERRY Lee claimed her second victory of the Easter Festival at Fairyhouse as Top Gamble ran out a comprehensive winner of the Normans Grove Chase.

The Herefordshire handler has enjoyed a marvellous first season after taking over the licence from father Richard, and tasted Grade 1 glory for the first time when Kylemore Lough clinched Sunday's Ryanair Gold Cup in County Meath.

Like his stable companion, Top Gamble made the journey from Britain with excellent claims for his Grade 2 assignment, having beaten last year's Queen Mother Champion Chase hero Dodging Bullets in the Game Spirit at Newbury last month.

The 5-4 favourite was partnered by British champion jockey-elect Richard Johnson and quickened up well in the straight, safely negotiating the remaining obstacle to seal a seven length success.

Sizing Granite fared better than when pulling up in the Champion Chase at Cheltenham a fortnight ago to fill the runner-up spot, but there is room for improvement in the jumping department.

Days Hotel was third, while having cut out much of the running, multiple Grade One winner Flemenstar weakened quickly from the home turn and passed the post fourth.

100TH WINNER

Ruby Walsh delivered Clondaw Warrior with a perfectly-timed challenge to claim top honours in the Farmhouse Foods Handicap Hurdle at Fairyhouse and record his 100th winner of the season in Ireland.

A winner at Royal Ascot and at the Galway Festival on the flat last summer, the nine-year-old was making his first appearance since running on Champions Day at Ascot last autumn.

Walsh rode a patient race aboard Willie Mullins' charge, but produced him to challenge for the lead at the final flight and he jumped it well and landed running to score by three lengths at odds of 9-2.

Clondaw Warrior carries the colours of the Act D Wagg Syndicate, a group of owners that includes Walsh's wife Gillian.

The Plan Man was second, ahead of Modem in third.

Mullins said: "He just missed the cut in the Galway Hurdle last year and hopefully he'll get into that this year.

"We have an entry for the Scottish Champion Hurdle. He ran a bit better than I expected as we didn't enter him for the Yorkshire Cup which closed today, but they went such a gallop that it played into his hands.

"They went very fast and it all just seemed to collapse. I thought it was probably the ride of the week. He'd only a few behind him at Ballyhack, and got a lovely run through but he was brazen enough to take it."

Earlier in the day, Barry Geraghty rode his fifth winner of the Fairyhouse Easter Festival as Eddie Harty's Coney Island won with plenty in hand in the I.N.H. Stallion Owners European Breeders Fund Novice Handicap Hurdle Series Final.

A winner at Leopardstown over Christmas before seemingly having his limitations exposed in the Deloitte Novice Hurdle, the five-year-old was a 9-1 shot despite dropping markedly in grade.

Geraghty produced his mount to lead after jumping the second flight from the finish and he found an extra gear to beat Stowaway Shark by two and three-quarter lengths.