Demandrivingdouvan delivers in Thurles bumper 

Scalor caused a real upset when taking the opener, the Thurles Beginners’ Chase, for Liz Doyle and Sean O’Keeffe

SMART SORT: Demandrivingdouvan and Jamie Codd win Thursday's Thurles finale. Picture: Healy Racing

Much of the focus on Thursday’s card in Thurles was on the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Auction Bumper, in which the highly-regarded Demandrivingdouvan was making his seasonal debut.

Winner of a point-to-point, and runner-up to Marine Nationale on his only outing of last season, in a bumper, he was a long odds-on favourite to make a winning return, and duly obliged.