ST ANDREW’S and the Open Championship. It certainly has a very special ring to it.

ROOT CAUSE, treated to a day out at Laytown previously, got off the mark over jumps when landing the www.tramore-racecourse.com Maiden Hurdle at the Waterford track yesterday.

RORY CLEARY, fresh from finishing top flat jockey jockey at the Galway Festival, was on the mark again at Tipperary last night when guiding Nic’s Colleen to a smooth success in the Derrinstown Stud Apprentice Handicap.