Kieren Fallon, chasing a fourth jockeys' championship, drew level with Pat Eddery at the top of the standings when a sparkling treble took his seasonal score to 57 at Beverley yesterday.

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 Michael Stoute-trained Photographer ran away with the Eve Rail Maiden, 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 would have been a bit rough. She will go to the sales later in the year."

Butler was not present to see Pulau Penang, but Green Casket's trainer Jeremy Glover could not believe what he saw, and he added: "In 17 years training I have never had a horse in a dead-heat and now I have had two in a fortnight.

"Mantles Pride was involved in one here two weeks ago and it must have been a million-to-one chance to have another so soon at the same track."

Paul Eddery is now first-choice jockey to Brian Smart, who watched him complete a double when bringing top-weight Honest Warning home with a comfortable half-length to spare in the Tankclean Handicap.