The Bryan Cooper-Gigginstown House Stud combination struck again at Grade 1 level at Leopardstown yesterday when Don Poli, trained by Willie Mullins, landed a red-hot Topaz Novice Chase.

Robbie McNamara, first cousin of John Thomas McNamara, so tragically paralysed in a fall at the meeting a year ago, rode his first Festival winner when taking the Weatherbys’ Champion Bumper on the Dermot Weld-trained Silver Concorde.

When Jim Culloty walks through his stables at Mount Corbitt in Churchtown, Cork, he tends to count the heads of his horses.

EBAZIYAN will return to the scene of his finest hour for a crack at the Smurfit Kappa Champion Hurdle following his return to winning form under Ruby Walsh at Leopardstown yesterday.

HURRICANE Fly will be sorely missed if he does not make it to Cheltenham, should Go Native’s ready victory at Naas be anything to go by.