Bigbadandbeautiful makes a successful start to hurdling career at Navan

Bigbadandbeautiful and Robbie Power win for owner Andrew Bedford and trainer Denise Foster with groom Carley Scott (pictured) at Navan. Picture: Healy Racing

Triple bumper winner Bigbadandbeautiful made a successful start to her hurdling career when coming off the pace to win the Slane Mares Maiden Hurdle readily in Navan yesterday.

With Robbie Power deputising for Jack Kennedy (taking a few days off after Cheltenham), the uneasy even-money favourite jumped safely, if a little deliberately, and, having had plenty of ground to make up three from home, found an extra gear between the last twp flights and cut down De Lady In Red on the run-in for an, ultimately, cosy length and a quarter success.