PERCE Rock gave Tony McCoy and J P McManus a timely boost following the fatal fall of Wichita Lineman in the Powers Whiskey Irish Grand National on Monday when landing the Tattersalls Ireland Dan Moore Memorial Handicap Chase at Fairyhouse yesterday.

CAIM HILL, off the track since September, and On The Way Out, ninth in the Pierse Hurdle at Leopardstown, dead-heated at the end of a thriller for the Listed Surehaul Mercedes Novice Hurdle at Clonmel yesterday.

DOWN exhibitor, Desmond Gibson, Dromara, had a successful outing to the Iverk Show in Piltown, Co Kilkenny, where he won the Tullamore Dew brood mare and foal All Ireland championship.

PHILIP FENTON’S Caim Hill is the nap choice to complete a four-timer in the Cunningham Higgins Specialist Cars Novice Hurdle at Galway this evening.

THE BAY LAD, a nine-year-old who has never won a race, gets the nap to land the Martin Reilly Hyundai Maiden Hurdle at Sligo this evening.