Trainer Karl Thornton has his small string in tremendous form and Manuka gave the Skerries handler his third winner in three days when landing the Powerstown Demesne Qualified Riders’ Handicap Hurdle under Johnny Barry.

Galway Plate-winning jockey Jonathan Burke teamed up with larger-than-life character Mick Winters to secure a very popular success aboard TheosWell in the Attheraces Handicap Hurdle yesterday afternoon at Cork racecourse.

On his first ride back, having been shaken in a fall at Limerick on Sunday, Paul Townend triumphed for his trainer/father Tim on Kala Brandy in the opening Ladies Free Admission This Evening Mares Maiden Hurdle in Clonmel last night.