Placed six times in stakes company over the last two season, the Jim Bolger-trained Altesse deservedly earned winning black type when getting the better of Ballybacka Queen by a half-length in the listed Noblesse Stakes, feature on Student Day in Leopardstown yesterday.

Cork and Roscommon tracks host evening meetings, and management at the former, which is being run in aid of the Irish Injured Jockeys’ Fund and Mallow Hospital, are asking for a minimum entry donation of €5, all of which will go to the two charities.

"You wouldn’t have given him a better ride than that yourself," quipped course commentator Dessie Scahill to Charlie Swan in the winner’s enclosure, after Jonathan Burke had partnered the trainer’s The Game Change to land the featured Download The Free Racing Post Mobile App Handicap Hurdle at Killarney last night.