TOUT GETS JOB DONE FOR MEADE

GREY DAY: Tout Est Permis won the Troytown Chase

NOEL MEADE foiled Gordon Elliott’s attempt to win the Ladbrokes Troytown Chase at Navan for a fifth successive time as Tout Est Permis ran out a stylish winner yesterday.

Elliott was determined to keep the winning streak going, fielding 11 of the 25 runners in the three-mile race, but none of them finished in the frame as Tout Est Permis outstayed his rivals.

Ridden by Sean Flanagan, Tout Est Permis (9-1) challenged Mr Diablo two fences out as the rest of the field dropped away.

The five-year-old grey found plenty on the run to the last, jumping two lengths clear before galloping on to win by four and a half lengths.

Mr Diablo, at 50-1, kept going for second, with Magic Of Light (20-1) a further six and a half lengths away in third.

Meade was overjoyed to land the prize for owners Gigginstown House Stud.

Meade said: “Eddie (O’Leary, racing manager for Gigginstown) said to me the other morning ‘Are you not going to run the other two in it?’ and I said ‘No – you can only win it once’.

“I was very sweet on him, and he worked a bomb the other day. I felt if we just kept him together from then until

Sunday, he’d win. He’s a nice horse – we’ve run him twice, and he’s won well both times. The Paddy Power Chase at Leopardstown is a possibility, but he’ll nearly have top weight in that now.”

Jessica Harrington, inset, scored a 471-1 treble with the highlight being Walk To Freedom, a 20-1 outside, in the Proudstown Handicap Hurdle.

Robbie Power drove out the eight-year-old after the last for a two-and-ahalf-length victory over joint-favourite De Name Escapes Me.

Walk To Freedom was completing a double for Power and Harrington after the earlier success of Jetz (4-1) in the Beginners Chase.

Barrington Court (7-2) then rounded off Harrington’s hat-trick with an impressive success in the bumper.