It was business as usual for Ruby Walsh in Ballinrobe last night as he triumphed on his only ride, Call Me Bubbles, for Willie Mullins, in the Tipperary Water Hurdle.

TORNADO SHAY will be expected to make a successful hurdling debut in today’s Bennettsbridge Maiden Hurdle at Gowran Park.

RITE Of Passage hardened as favourite for the Neptune Investments Novice Hurdle at Cheltenham after recording what his trainer Dermot Weld described as a “satisfactory” win in the Book Your Festival Tickets Hurdle at Punchestown yesterday.