Kala Brandy, winner of her bumper in Wexford in March, might be capable of landing the Irish Stallion farms Mares Maiden Hurdle in Cork tonight for Paul Townend, fresh from his three winners at the Punchestown Festival last week, and his dad Tim.

The connections of Jezki - second in the Ryanair Hurdle - had better luck when the rapidly improving Galway Plate winner, John Kiely’s Carlingford Lough, also owned by McManus, landed the Grade 1 Topaz Novice Chase at Leopardstown yesterday.

The Dessie Hughes-trained White Star Line recorded a poignant victory in the Wilderness Chase in Clonmel yesterday.