THE former dual champion flat rider Donnacha O’Brien sent out his first winner of the 2020 Irish flat season when Great House bagged the older horses’ mile-and-a-half maiden under Gavin Ryan.

O’Brien struck with Mythologic at Dundalk in March, that one also ridden by the very promising Ryan, and over the first three weeks of the season a host of his inmates have run creditably in defeat. Among them is this weekend’s Prix de Diane challenger Fancy Blue who ran so well to take second in last month’s Irish 1000 Guineas.