Classy Concorde makes flying return

Last season’s Cheltenham Bumper winner Silver Concorde made a successful return to action when justifying 2/5 favouritism in the two-mile Win A Ski Holiday Racecard Competition Maiden, the first leg of a double for Pat Smullen, in Navan yesterday.

Having tracked the leaders, the Dermot Weld-trained six-year-old edged ahead with more than two furlongs to race and, soon challenged by Rightdownthemiddle, was always doing enough to triumph by three-quarters of a length.

“He just got tired, but he’s a very good horse,” Smullen said.