Any worries regarding the health of Willie Mullins’ horses, following a number of reverses over the previous two racing days, were blown out of the water at Clonmel yesterday.

In Dubai where he saddled Lily’s Angel’s to triumph on the opening day of the 2013 Carnival in Meydan on Thursday, Ger Lyons missed seeing Machete Mark open his account — at the third attempt — in the Crowne Plaza Hotel Race & Stay Maiden in Dundalk last night.

JOHN Oxx has a superb record with his runners at Tramore and punters who noted that the Curragh trainer had made a rare trip south to the seaside track were in clover as he teamed up with rider Ben Curtis for a 26½/1 double with Haleniya in the mile and a half maiden and the well-bred Missy O' Gwaun in the www.thetote.com Handicap.

JOHN Kiely’s Oneeightofamile made a victorious return to hurdling in the featured Dermot Casey-Hire Sales and Tree Services Hurdle at Cork’s well-attended jumps fixture last night.