LEADING greyhound trainer Paul Hennessy made a dream start to his career as a racehorse handler when Cheers Buddy, his first runner, got up close home under a power-packed ride by Joseph O’Brien to land the i105-107FM Handicap at Dundalk last night.

SEAMUS Heffernan provided Aidan O’Brien with a short-priced double in the early two-year-old action at Naas last night, as odds-on favourites Queen Of Troy and Rudolf Valentino triumphed by a total of eleven lengths.

JIM BOLGER’S Radharcnafarraige ran out a ready winner of the Group Three Coolmore Stud Fillies Stakes at Naas yesterday to set herself up for a tilt at the Albany Stakes at Royal Ascot.