One Cool Poet created a memorable piece of Galway history when winning for the third time in six days at the Festival.
Trained by Matthew Smith, the seven-year-old had only previously won one of his 29 races - but has became just the second ever to win three times at the seven-day meeting.
His great week started on Tuesday with a win over an extended mile, scraping home by a neck.
On Thursday he stepped up to a mile and a half and defied a 6lb penalty, winning by a comfortable length and a half.
Turned out again under a 12lb penalty over the same distance on Saturday -and once again ridden by Billy Lee, as he had been all week - he came sweeping through to record his easiest success of all by five lengths at 11/4 in the McDonogh Capital Investments Handicap.
"It is brilliant. I'm shocked, and it is dream stuff for me," said Smith.
"He has been up and down to the yard all week and was out in the field on Wednesday, had a hack on Thursday morning, same on Friday and then today.
"He was really relaxed and chilled out in the parade ring, and I was going to tell Billy (Lee) that I thought he was better today - but was nearly afraid to say it!
"Busted Tycoon did it a few years ago. But that was on the Flat and over hurdles - and this lad is the first to do three on the Flat."
Great result for Kelly camp
Great Trango dug deep on the run to the line to give trainer Harry Kelly the biggest victory of his career in the Galway Shopping Centre Handicap Hurdle, the feature race on day six of the big meeting at Ballybrit.
It looked like Rachael Blackmore would lift the 120,000 euro prize on the Willie Mullins-trained Ask Susan, who had tracked the pace-setting Plinth for much of the journey.
Leading jumping the last, Ask Susan went for home, but Phillip Enright conjured an irresistible run from Great Trango (12/1), getting up to score by a length and a half.
Mullins' Great White Shark, the winner of the big race on the Flat on Monday night in which Great Trango was eighth, had to settle for a creditable third as the 3/1 favourite, having looked dangerous at one stage, with Neverushacon fourth.
Kelly said: "That's my biggest win. The plan from 12 months ago was to run in the amateur handicap on Monday and this race on Saturday. Nothing went right on Monday and it was just a disaster and I went home sick.
"But it was no one's fault and Jamie (Codd) looked after the horse and that's what you get when you get the best, when things go wrong they look after them.
"There is nobody better off a light weight than Philip and he is a jockey always trying for you. The plan was to jump off good and handy and Philip was great on him all the way.
"He is one of the toughest horses in training and I'm very grateful to the owners for buying him. The Donohues have been great, he was bought as a replacement for Lagostovegas and he's not a bad replacement."
He added: "He was beaten seven and a half lengths on Monday, we lost four lengths coming out of the stalls and he's horse who needs to be prominent.
"Jamie said to run him again if he gets the ground at the end of the week."
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