Notre Pere ploughed through the mud to claim the Punchestown Guinness Gold Cup and earn a 10-1 quote with totesport for the equivalent race at Cheltenham next March.

Dunguib emulated Cousin Vinny 12 months earlier and followed up his Cheltenham bumper success with an ultra-impressive victory in the Paddy Power Champion INH Flat Race at Punchestown.

SEAMUS LYNCH’S Itsallaracket is the nap choice in the EBF Mares’ Novice Hurdle at Downpatrick this afternoon.

PHILIP FENTON, who won the bumper at Punchestown on Saturday with a possible star of the future in Dunguib, was on the mark again at Cork yesterday when landing the featured Blackwater Handicap Hurdle with Gusda.