DECLAN McDonogh took the riding honours at Gowran Park on Wednesday evening when winning each of the final three races on the card, two of them for trainer John Oxx.

The pair first struck in the nine and a half-furlong Thomastown Maiden when 8/1 Upgraded scored by three lengths. Newtown Anner Stud's three-year-old showed marked improvement on her racecourse debut, which was at Navan just four days before.

Half an hour later, McDonogh and Oxx took the Join Us September 16th Handicap, over the same trip, with 7/2 favourite Birds Of Prey.

This was a second win from seven starts for Barbara Keller's three-year-old and came just three weeks after the improving gelding opened his winning account over the same course and distance.

McDonogh brought up the treble when 10/1 Iolani came home two lengths clear of his closest pursuer in the 14-furlong Live Music After Racing Saturday September 16th Maiden.

The five-year-old, a gelded son of Sholokhov, is trained by Willie Mullins for the Supreme Horse Racing Club.

Odds-on favourite First Figaro, who was bidding to give Dermot Weld and Pat Smullen a double on the card – following Sorelle Delle Rose's (3/1) win in the seven-furlong Gowran Park Handicap – disappointed in fifth place.

Family Tree, a 420,000-guineas purchase last October, got off the mark at the first time of asking in the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Maiden.

Aidan O'Brien's chesnut Galileo colt was sporting a tongue tie on his debut and when the penny dropped inside the final couple of furlongs he displayed a nice turn of foot and won readily under Seamie Heffernan.

It was, however, his stable companion and fellow Galileo offspring Madrid who had been the subject of a significant support in the market prior to the seven-furlong contest.

The once-raced Madrid had been backed from around the 5/1 mark earlier in the morning in to 11/8 at the off but could only manage third under Donnacha O'Brien.

Family Tree showed signs of greenness throughout but the half-brother to dual juvenile Group 1 winner Reckless Abandon won with his ears pricked.

Heffernan said: "It was a nice performance. He was a bit green and there could be plenty of improvement."

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