Connections happy with Salmon run

Beef Or Salmon warmed up for a trip to next week’s Punchestown Festival with a respectable third-place finish in the Racing Post In Ireland Hurdle, the opening race on Irish Grand National day at Fairyhouse.

Michael Hourigan’s 10-year-old was on something of a retrieval mission in the three-mile race having unseated Paul Carberry at Aintree and disappointed for the fourth time in the Cheltenham Gold Cup.