SEAMUS HEFFERNAN, set to ride as number two to Kieren Fallon at Ballydoyle this season, partnered his first winner of the jumps campaign when steering Brogella to an easy success in the Mares Novice Hurdle at Clonmel yesterday.

ON an afternoon when Ruby Walsh rode in excess of a 15-1 treble, the main talking point at Cork yesterday was the Mallow Handicap Chase.

Paddy Mullins' Hurry Bob landed the €19,530 euros first prize in the three-mile J F Dunne Insurances Handicap Hurdle.