Hurricane Fly landed a twelfth Grade 1 success and crowned a great day for Willie Mullins and Ruby Walsh when winning the Dobbins & Madigans Morgiana Hurdle in Punchestown yesterday.

The Harry Kelly-trained Carthalawn lit up yesterday’s well-attended Tallow point-to-point meeting, staged on Jimmy Mangan’s lands at Shanakill Cross, by winning a vintage renewal of the open lightweight.

EAGLE’S PASS, third behind Farmer Brown in the Galway Hurdle twelve months ago, is on the trail of that major prize again, following a smooth victory in the Ulster Bank Mallow Hurdle at Cork last night.

Harchibald staked his claim for championship honours with a smooth success under a vintage Paul Carberry ride in the Pertemps ‘Fighting Fifth’ Hurdle at Newcastle today.