The fixture usually provides some useful Dublin pointers including The Irish Field Breeders Championship, won last year by Rosemary Connors’ Gorey-qualified combination of Woodfield Valier and her Financial Reward foal.

It was another Financial Reward colt who, with his Colin Diamond dam and 2012 Limerick Matron champion Greenhall Diamond Lady, topped this year’s qualifier for Derry Rothwell. Booking their places in the Denise Norton and Maurice Coleman-judged final were John Roche’s Bandon broodmare champion Assagart All My Hope, shown with her Castleforbes Lord Lancer colt and then Martin and Majella Fahey’s Tullys Kimberley with a Coroner colt.