SEAMUS HEFFERNAN, set to ride as number two to Kieren Fallon at Ballydoyle this season, partnered his first winner of the jumps campaign when steering Brogella to an easy success in the Mares Novice Hurdle at Clonmel yesterday.

CHRISTY ROCHE’S horses are gradually hitting form and his Like A Bee is fancied to land the nap in the Nore Valley Hurdle at Clonmel this afternoon.