Bob Le Beau jumps the last under Mark Bolger© Photo Healy Racing
After the success of Fresh By Nature thirty minutes earlier, Jessica Harrington and Mark Bolger quickly doubled up as Bob Le Beau took the SHS Sales & Marketing Hurdle. Fatcatinthehat went off the 8/15 favourite (opened on-course at 4/6), for Willie Mullins and Paul Townend, with the winner going off at 4/1.
A Listed winner on the level, the six-year-old victorious son of Big Bad Bob won his maiden hurdle at Ballinrobe in June, finishing a close up fifth to Que Pasa on his next start at Galway, before finding Blackmail far too good on his last start at Bellewstown.
Having raced in second, he got a nice run up the rail to get on terms with Fatcatinthehat at the third last.
He got to the front before two out, and he asserted on the run-in to score easily by seven and a half lengths.
Fatcatinthehat went badly left approaching the third last, drifting across to the stand side, eventually finishing second, while his stablemate Moveable Asset was half a length back in third.
Mark Bolger said afterwards: "That fella's a good horse on the flat.
"Small fields and two miles suits him. He's tough and stays.
"To be fair he's been busy over hurdles. He's a proper good ground horse and he'll be kept going."
Additional reporting by Michael Graham
