DOWNPATRICK held its final meeting of 2017 last Friday afternoon when Gordon Elliott was crowned champion trainer at the track for the fourth year in succession, receiving 240 bottles of Coors Light for this achievement.

The Meath man, who was presented with his prize by the sponsor’s Leo Fennell and Downpatrick racecourse patron Eveleigh Brownlow, went into the fixture with a six-win lead over his nearest rivals, Mark McNiff and Joseph O’Brien, and brought his seasonal total up to 14 with a treble on the day.