CO Antrim’s Sam Ewing had his first rides on the track on Tuesday at Roscommon where he finished third on Dress Kode in the near mile maiden for two-year-old fillies and second on the favourite Avarice in the 10-furlong maiden for colts and geldings aged three years old and upwards.

Both horses are trained by Ger Lyons to whom the 16-year-old is apprenticed and whose yard he joined once school was out for the summer.