Zoom in on Zafar

ZAFAR, who hasn’t run over flights for 492 days, gets the nap to land the B P McKeefry Hurdle at Down Royal this evening.

Michael O’Brien’s gelding hasn’t left the ground in public since contesting a winners’ hurdle at the Punchestown Festival of 2007.

No less than 25 faced the starter that day and Zafar performed with any amount of promise in finishing fourth behind Phantom Lad.