DUAL Gold Cup and Grand National hero, Jim Culloty, enjoyed his first ever success at Listowel when partnering Al Eile to a shock 12-1 victory in the Devon Inn three-year-old Hurdle at the first stage of the Festival yesterday.

COOLDINE PRINCE, a winner of his last two races over flights, gets the vote to make it a hat-trick when he contests the Powerstown Handicap Hurdle at Clonmel this evening.

THE biggest surprise about yesterday’s featured Kevin McManus Bookmaker Novice ’Chase at Cork wasn’t that Golden Row scored in a canter, but rather the fact the layers offered him at 4-7.