[1] The winner College Causeway won €175,000 and was trained by Pat Buckley, owned by the Mike & Vincent McKenna and bred by Frank Culloty.
[2] At Shelbourne, 12 September (over 550 yards): 1½, 1¼, 2½, 1¾, 2¼, short-head (lengths) College Causeway (a 2008 semi-finalist) broke the track record setting a new mark of 29.21 in the first round and is cut from 16-1 to 8-1 to win the competition.
[4] Three of the quarter-finals were won by Royal Tornado, Cashen Legend and Oran Classic with Droopys Noel managing only fourth.
College Causeway continued his winning ways and securing a fourth successive victory in 29.47, the best of the round.
[4] In the semi-finals College Causeway beat Shaneboy Lee and Oran Classic; Slip the Lark was eliminated as was Mid West Blue who went out at the same stage as he did the previous year.