COLM MURPHY got a little boost, on the lead-in to Big Zeb’s challenge for next week’s Champion Chase at Cheltenham, when Dangan Daylight landed the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Maiden Hurdle at Clonmel yesterday.

DESSIE HUGHES and Bryan Cooper have developed into a cracking combination and the duo can combine to provide us with a winning nap in the shape of Eyre Apparent in the BBQ @ Clonmel Races 8th Maiden Hurdle at the Tipperary track tonight.

Charles Byrnes’ Scottish Boogie justified strong market support in a maiden hurdle at Killarney on Sunday.

PRINCETON PLAINS, who failed to win a maiden over flights or on the flat, broke his duck in style with a last-gasp success in the valuable ladbrokes.com Handicap Hurdle at Killarney yesterday.