Charlie Swan and two other riders had a lucky escape at Killarney yesterday but the champion jockey still sustained a rib injury which necessitated a trip to hospital for an X-ray.

Swan on Archelec was leading the Waterford Crystal Handicap Hurdle when Archelec stumbled and fell just before the turn away from the stands.

Willie Slattery on Tower Project and Barry Keniry on Funny Rose had nowhere to go in the tightly packed field and were brought down.

It looked a very nasty incident but thankfully Slattery and Keniry were unscathed and the three horses uninjured. The stewards held an inquiry but found that no blame could be apportioned.

The race was won by the favourite Nicholls Cross who held the sustained challenge of Brushetta and complete a double in the first two races for Norman Williamson and Edward O'Grady.

Dance So Suite, a half brother to the French 2,000 Guineas winner Victory Note, followed up his win over the track in May with a 1 to 2 success in the novices hurdle despite crashing through the top of the last obstacle.

"He'll probably go for a winners hurdle at Galway," said O'Grady who was saddling his first winner of the season.

Another horse going to Galway is Cincuenta who beat off Crystal Springs and Osprey Ridge to land the £12,000 Dawn Milk Run Handicap. Cincuenta carried bottomweight which was just as well because as trainer Pat Flynn explained: "She's a tiny little thing, only about 14.3. We'll find a handicap over a trip for her at Galway."

Seventeen-year-old Philip Carberry, brother of Paul and son of Tommy, looked a chip off the old block when winning the second race of his career on Native Status in the Kerry Water Handicap Hurdle.

So much so that he afforded himself the luxury of several looks over his shoulder before Native Status, who gave him his first winner at Bellewstown, finished three parts of a length ahead of Kippins.

"If the weights go up he could run in the Plate," said Carberry Snr and Paul, currently injured, hopes to return for the start of the Galway festival.

Mick Kinane grabbed the Dawn Maiden by the scruff of the neck from the start on Vagrant to give Dermot Weld his sole winner over the four days while Challenger Two took the Court Hotel Handicap for Kevin Prendergast and Stephen Craine.

Sir Mark Prescott's Flawless ridden by George Duffield will be one of seven runners involved in today's Prix Chloe at Chantilly.