SAINT GERVAIS, a dual bumper winner who has proved a trifle disappointing since launched over flights, got his act together with a smooth victory in the two miles plus Maiden Hurdle at Clonmel yesterday.

THE dual bumper winner Saint Gervais can enjoy a first success over flights in thetote.com Maiden Hurdle at Clonmel this evening.

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.

BACK to the scene of his narrow and controversial defeat by Captain Cee Bee in July, the Edward O’Grady trained The Real Article proved an impressive winner of the Grade 3 Friends Of Tipperary Hurdle at Tipperary yesterday.

JOHN Kiely’s Oneeightofamile made a victorious return to hurdling in the featured Dermot Casey-Hire Sales and Tree Services Hurdle at Cork’s well-attended jumps fixture last night.