Cillian’s Return gets off the mark over flights in style

Cillian’s Return, bought out of Bill Farrell’s by J P McManus after taking a bumper at Fairyhouse on New Year’s Day, made a winning start for his new connections when easily taking the Michael Maher Building And Construction Services Maiden Hurdle at Tipperary last night.

Now trained by Tony Martin, the promising five-year-old was always travelling sweetly, despite some indifferent jumping.

He was none too clever over the second last, nor was the challenging Patsio, but soon moved on and only had to be asked to do the minimum by Mark Walsh to beat Poetic Lord by three and a half lengths.