JUST over three months after riding his last winner and with just his fourth runner as a trainer, Donnacha O’Brien was back in the winner’s enclosure when Flower Garland captured the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Fillies Maiden.

Owned and bred by the trainer’s mother Annemarie, this filly came within a neck of giving Donnacha O’Brien his first success as a trainer at this track last month. The 4/7 chance strode clear of the field from two furlongs out under Gavin Ryan to register a resounding six-length triumph. Appropriately O’Brien’s first victory as a trainer came at a track where Quartz gave him his first riding success in September 2014.