Swamp Fox routs rivals with another tremendous display at Listowel

Having looked likely to develop into a most frustrating sort, Swamp Fox is beginning to look like a professional winner, and the four-year-old produced another tremendous display to rout the opposition in the featured Liam Healy Memorial Lartigue Hurdle on day three of the Listowel Harvest Festival.

Since sporting blinkers for the first time, he has won twice on the flat, including the Connacht Hotel QR Race at the Galway Festival, and, with the same headgear applied over hurdles, he turned what should have been a very competitive race into a procession.

David Mullins sent the Windsor Knot gelding to the front before the second, asked him to go clear, and, after letting the field close up going to the second-last, sent him on again to record an emphatic success.