Mister Top Notch can get off the mark on the level

MISTER Top Notch, now a nine-year-old, can enjoy a first ever success on the flat in the Denny Havasnack Race at Tralee this afternoon.

He has only ever run once on the level anyway, finishing a creditable second behind Larkwing at Galway last October.

The mile and six then would have been inadequate and this two miles and a furlong is likely to prove far more suitable.