Dreamland for Poulmucka jockey Alan Casey who gets a winner on his second ride!

Poulmucka apprentice Alan Casey rode a winner on just his second ride as the Denis Hogan-trained Polemon took the concluding nine-furlong handicap at Gowran Park on Wednesday evening.

The Premier Racing Club-owned 12/1 chance went to the front inside the final furlong and held on by a shorthead under the 17-year-old jockey to beat Paul Nolan’s Jarvis Brook which was ridden by Ronan Whelan.

Earlier in the evening, Aidan O'Brien had won the nine-furlong Listed Darley Irish EBF Hurry Harriet Stakes with the Wayne Lordan-ridden Wingspan. The 4/1 chance readily got the better of Paddy Twomey’s 5/1 shot One Look by three-parts of a length.

The four-runner 12-furlong handicap went the way of Smooth Tom which was ridden by Andrew Slattery for his dad Andy. Owned and bred by Margaret O’Rourke, the 6/1 chance was momentarily eased inside the final 100 yards but was then ridden out to win by a neck from the rallying Jessica Harrington-trained Highland Bling.

Smooth Tom had finished second in the same race last year. Nathan Crosse took the nine-furlong median auction maiden on the Willie McCreery-trained Cancelled.

The 11/4 chance headed Joseph O'Brien’s front-running 11/8 favourite Valinor under two furlongs out and kept on to beat that same rival by half a length, the pair a length and three-parts ahead of the winner’s stable companion Coul Dreamer.