The Galway Plate was the highlight of Day 3 (Wednesday) at the Galway Festival and Ash Tree Meadow ran out a worthy winner for trainer Gordon Elliott and claiming jockey Danny Gilligan.

Auguste Rodin will face eight rivals in Sunday’s Group 1 Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby at the Curragh as he bids to give trainer Aidan O’Brien a record-extending fifteenth Irish Derby and bring up a 100th European Classic for the master from Ballydoyle.

White Birch was all heart to triumph as the outsider in the P.W. McGrath Memorial Ballysax Stakes at Leopardstown.