MICHAEL HOURIGAN, a trainer who has not been slow to criticise jockeys in the past, described Paul Carberry as a “genius” after the brilliant rider had partnered the Limerick handler’s The Screamer to win the Smithwicks’ Handicap Hurdle at Listowel yesterday.

CRYSTAL VIEW, trained by Kevin Prendergast, came late and fast to beat Imperial Rose and Falstaff in the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Premier Nursery at the final stage of the Tralee Festival yesterday.

KICKHAM warmed up for a possible tilt at the Galway Hurdle when justifying odds of 2-7 in the Niall Brosnan and Co Solicitors’ Novice Hurdle at Killarney yesterday.