Native back with a bang

Three-time Grade 1 winning hurdler Go Native, off the course for 19 months before returning at Navan recently, is back with a bang.

The Noel Meade-trained nine-year-old, under a supremely confident ride by Nina Carberry, cruised to an impressive six-and-a-half lengths win over cry For The Moon in the www.swordsecurity.com Amateur Race in Galway yesterday.

Meade, busy at the Newmarket Sales, missed seeing this spectacular performance by his Morgiana Hurdle-bound charge. But Nina Carberry explained: “I wanted to look after him — that’s why I stayed wide and out of trouble. He felt great and will, hopefully keep improving.”