On a day which promised so much, Patrick Mullins salvaged a single win from his four rides in Gowran Park yesterday as he closes in on Billy Parkinson’s record, set in 1915, for the number of winners ridden by an amateur in a calendar year.

ROBERT TYNER’S Its The Ice I Like can land the nap in the Goresbridge Maiden Hurdle at Gowran Park this afternoon.

BEA Bea Three gets a hopeful nap to win the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Fillies Maiden, on a rather low-key mixed programme at Gowran Park tonight.

CLAIMER Adrian Joyce, who won the valuable Paddy Power Chase on Cane Brake over Christmas, again proved his talent when guiding In The High Grass to victory in the Shamrock Handicap Chase at Gowran Park yesterday.