No anchoring impressive Seahorse at Navan

Paul Nolan's runner laid down a Cheltenham Festival marker.
No anchoring impressive Seahorse at Navan

FULL FLIGHT: HMS Seahorse and Sean O'Keeffe win the Navan Handicap Hurdle. Picture: HEALY RACING

HMS Seahorse made a stylish return to action in the Navan Handicap Hurdle, putting himself in the frame for the Cheltenham Festival in the process.

The five-year-old finished fourth in the Fred Winter at Prestbury Park last term before claiming a distant third upped to Grade One level at the Punchestown Festival, but he had been off the track since finishing down the field in the Irish Cesarewitch at the Curragh in September, having been gelded in the interim.

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