DAVID O’Meara and Danny Tudhope won the William Hill Great St Wilfrid at Ripon for the third time in four years as Out Do prevailed in a blanket finish.

The five-year-old has been running with great credit in a series of competitive handicaps all season and, fitted with a first-time visor, he was backed into 7-1 favouritism by a bumper crowd at the Garden Racecourse.

He won by half a length from last year’s runner-up, Spinatrix, who ran another great race at her favourite course, with Confessional and Tatlisu dead-heating for third.

Tudhope said: “I got a bit lucky as we got stuck in a pocket.

“He travelled much better with the visor on and it definitely made a difference.

“The plan was to be handy but we missed the break a bit.

“It got very tight, but we got lucky.”

O’Meara, who also won with Pepper Lane in 2011 and 2012, said: “Danny mentioned he might need headgear and he was right.

“At one point I thought he had a bit too much to do, but the gap opened up in time and he quickened up nice.

“I hoped he’d win a big one at one stage, but I thought he’d want the ground a bit quicker.

“With that in mind, it would be a concern aiming him for the Ayr Gold Cup, but there’s a nice race at York later on and we might go back there.”

Spinatrix’s trainer Michael Dods said: “I thought we were drawn on the wrong side and so it proved.

“I think she just might have won with a low draw. She’s run a great race again and it’s been frustrating this year with all the fast ground.

“She’ll go for the Ayr Gold Cup and I’ll look for a race before then.”

And Spinatrix was also in action at Pontefract yesterday – again finishing a very close second to Valonia in a Listed race.

O’Meara was also on the mark at Ripon in the attheraces.

com Handicap Stakes with Bartack (5-1 co-favourite) and then with Fattsota at Newmarket in a golden halfhour spell.

The William Hill Silver Trophy, a consolation race for the feature, was also a tight finish but won in the end by David Barron’s former Sir Michael Stoute inmate Duke Cosimo (13-2), who struck by two short heads from Red Refraction and Chooseday.

Ann Duffield’s newcomer Marsh Pride (20-1) foiled a big gamble in the RiponBet Place 6 Maiden Auction Stakes.

Joseph Tuite’s Fast Dancer was backed in the morning from 25-1 into 5-1 and for much of the race looked home and hosed, but PJ Mc- Donald timed it right on the filly to win going away.

Duffield said: “She’ll stay further. I’ve brought some nice fillies to Ripon down the years and I hope this is another.”

Duffield also won the Ripon Hornblower Conditions Stakes with Dark Reckoning (10-1), owned by Qatar Racing and ridden by Harry Bentley.

“On paper, she should only have finished third but I knew she’d be better for a sixth furlong and appreciate a bit of give,” said Duffield.

“She’ll get an entry in the Listed race here now (Champion Two Yrs Old Trophy), but the race for her might be the Group Three at Ayr (Firth of Clyde).”