Irish National objective for Prince Rudi

Stephen Nolan would love to run Prince Rudi in the Irish National next spring after his stable stalwart landed the feature race on the sixth day of the Galway Festival on Saturday.

The 12-year-old gelding put up a top effort to take the Ladbrokes Handicap Hurdle under 3lb claimer Ian McCarthy.

The 20-1 outsider tracked game pacemaker Flatfoot Boogie for a long way before the latter’s challenge petered out along the run-in.