POPULAR local trainer Michael Winters landed the featured Coolmore N.H. Sires Kyprios Handicap Chase with River Vale (10/3). Prominent throughout under Gavin Brouder, the Down To The Alley Syndicate-owned gelding led from the third last and kept on strongly to win by one and three-quarter lengths.

Winters said: “He was unlucky as the young fella who rode him [at Thurles in early February] weighed in light after finishing second and then was clear, only to fall at the final fence (Thurles in mid-February). There was €13,000 in the difference in prize money between those.