Walsh once again the hero as he works the oracle on King of Foxrock

FORMER champion Ruby Walsh again proved the hero at Navan last night when performing heroics to stay on board odds-on favourite King Of Foxrock before landing a division of the Texas Maiden Hurdle.

The Noel Meade-trained favourite looked in command when sprawling badly and almost unseating Walsh at the third-last flight. Both horse and rider recovered but lost momentum and dropped back into fourth place before gradually reeling in the leaders and forging clear to score by a length and a half to the delight of favourite-backers.

Meade and Walsh provided another odds-on favourite in Rosaker in the Ladbrokes Country and Western Evening Hurdle. The eight-year-old made most of the running but lost out in the last hundred yards to stable companion More Rainbows, which got up to triumph by a neck.