Pomme Tiepy emerged from stern Irish National test with great credit

WHEN Niche Market went by the post in front at the end of the Grand National at Fairyhouse on Monday you could literally hear a pin drop.

You simply could not make a case for the eight-year-old and, with all due respect to them, Bob Buckler and Harry Skelton were hardly the most fashionable combination going into the contest.

The son of Presenting was previously tailed off in the four miler at Cheltenham and had only won once in 12 outings over fences.