Odds-on favourites Alelchi Inois and Most Peculiar provided champion trainer Willie Mullins and Paul Townend with a double in Galway last night.

Ireland houses two rather drab programmes this weekend, but a winner is a winner and Dessie Hughes’ Icy Reply is fancied to deliver in the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Mares’ Hurdle at Navan this afternoon.