THE biggest surprise about yesterday’s featured Kevin McManus Bookmaker Novice ’Chase at Cork wasn’t that Golden Row scored in a canter, but rather the fact the layers offered him at 4-7.

PAT VERLING struck a blow for the smaller man when training and riding Sabadilla to a tremendous success in yesterday’s Guinness Galway Hurdle at Ballybrit, before an attendance of 37,394.

Globetrotting gelding Sabadilla landed a surprise win in the €170,000 Guinness Handicap Hurdle at the Galway Festival this afternoon.