Shay Barry, who ended a long and successful riding career last year, registered his first training success when Cracked Rear View landed the bumper in Sligo last night, the www.coimtysligoraces.com Pro-Am Flat Race.

The Crawford brothers, Stuart and Stephen, struck on the double with Man With Van and debutante Twentrtytwo’s Taken in Down Royal yesterday.

Monksland is a best-priced 25/1 for Cheltenham’s Neptune Investments Novice Hurdle following a fluent victory over Lyreen Legend and Dedigout in the Grade 2 Slaney Novice Hurdle in Naas yesterday.

LITTLE more than three weeks before the Cheltenham festival, champion trainer Willie Mullins was in tremendous form again at Naas yesterday, following his recent ‘nap hand’ at Punchestown with a four-timer.

LIBANO should prove tough to beat in the Group 3 www.thetote.com Gladness Stakes at the Curragh tomorrow.