Sweet-jumping Ferbet easily takes the spoils

There was a huge crowd at Cork Racecourse for a bumper, eight-race programme on Easter Sunday, and the feature race, the Vincent O’Brien Centenary Chase, went, in great style, to Val De Ferbet.

The eight-year-old, trained by Andrew McNamara, and ridden by Adrian Heskin, looked on great terms with himself as he raced with enthusiastically on the front-end.

He held his position comfortably until Favourite A Toi Phil came with every chance on the turn for home, but the leader, who ran a race of real promise on the level just five days previously, remained full of running.