“HE’S a genius at his trade”, exclaimed Michael Hourigan of Ruby Walsh, after the champion jockey had powered the trainer’s Spaceman to victory in the Holycross Maiden Hurdle at Tipperary yesterday.

SHUIL ARIS, with the conditions of the contest stacked in the six-year-old’s favour, cannot be opposed in the Kirbys’ Pharmacy Hurdle at Tipperary this afternoon.