Longer trip to suit Hash Brown

Michael Hourigan is fancied to enjoy a welcome turn with Hash Brown in the Easyfix Rubber Products Maiden Hurdle at Ballinrobe tonight.

Three is no doubt the five-year-old, who failed to win a bumper, is a modest performer, but did offer hope there might be better to come when making his debut over jumps at the Galway festival. The selection went off a 25-1 shot and that certainly reflected the level of form he brought to a contest where Dermot Weld’s Tandem was all of the rage.

Tandem could only manage third behind Willie Mullins’ Most Peculiar and Aidan O’Brien’s Draco, with Hash Brown filling fourth.