JOSEPH O’Brien added to his ever growing and increasingly impressive big race haul as Voce Del Palio and Declan McDonogh got the money in the third edition of the €300,000 Irish EBF Ballyhane Stakes.

A maximum field of 24 lined up for one of the richest two-year-old prizes on offer in Ireland this year and Joseph O’Brien understandably fielded a four-strong challenge headed by this son of Bated Breath.