Early season winner for Killian Moore

Navan jockey Killian Moore added another winner to his tally in the UK this week when he was on the mark at Sedgefield yesterday in a handicap chase.

Moore partnered Master Rajeem for trainer Neil King and won well although headed after two out.

The Navan jockey remained calm and coaxed a winning run out of his mount which had won at the same track last January, but this was Moore's first outing on the seven-year-old.

Ashbourne jockey Andrew Lynch got off the mark for the new season today when he was on the mark at Tramore with the Edward O'Grady-trained Le Vagabond. Trainer Gordon Elliott was also on the mark at Tramore with his third winner of the new national hunt season.

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The Ger Lyons-trained Ainippe was beaten a length and a half in third place in the Group Three Athasi Stakes at the Curragh on Monday on her first start since finishing third in the Group One Matron Stakes at Leopardstown in September. Ainippe has early-closing entries in the Lanwades Stud Stakes, the TRM Ballyogan Stakes, both at the Curragh, and the Duke of Cambridge Stakes at Royal Ascot.