Fingal Bay finished for season

Philip Hobbs has decided to put Fingal Bay away for the season and not send him to Punchestown for the Cathal Ryan Memorial Champion Novice Hurdle on Friday.

The six-year-old, who was forced to miss the Cheltenham Festival, suffered his first defeat when second to Lovcen in the John Smith’s Sefton Novices’ Hurdle at Aintree.