JOHN Ryan saddled a near 110/1 double highlighted by the feature race success of Gaelic Arc in the Belvedere House & Gardens Galway Plate Trial Handicap Chase.

The Arcadio gelding, owned in partnership by Mark Fleming and Tom Westropp Bennett, was sent to the front with just over a circuit to run by Harry Sexton and kept on gamely from the last to hold off the challenge of Le Coq Hardi by three-quarters of a length. Sexton and Conor Smithers, aboard fourth-placed Ashdale Bob, both picked up two-day whip bans.