Kieren Fallon drew level with Pat Eddery at the top of the standings as a sparkling treble at Beverley took his seasonal score to 57 at Beverley. Ironically the middle leg, the well-backed Pulau Penang, had to be content with only a share of the spoils as Fallon forced the Gerard Butler-trained mare up to dead-heat with Green Casket, ridden by Pat's brother Paul, in the Eve Rail Stakes.
Fallon had opened his account in the Eve Rail Claiming Stakes (Division One) on Minandao and made it three when the Sir Michael Stoute-trained Photographer ran away with the Eve Rail Maiden Stakes, the hot favourite Fille De Bucheron fading quickly to finish a well-beaten third.
"Someone has just said in the weighing room that there are another 13 days of Sunday racing this season and did not seem too happy about it - but the more the merrier I say," said Fallon, with a broad smile.
Minandao was getting Julie Camacho off the mark for this, her fourth season with a licence, but she is to pack in the training game at the end of the campaign to spend more time with her young family. Her father Maurice said: "It was a desperate measure to get a winner! She had 20lb in hand and if she hadn't won it it would have been a bit rough. She will go to the sales later in the year."
Filed by Sinéad Kissane
