A 470,000 Euro buy at the Goffs Champion Sale at Leopardstown in 2014, Timiyan began making up for lost time when convincingly scoring in the M.S.D. Animal Health Maiden Hurdle under Mark Walsh at Listowel.

Nine to four chance Timiyan was always up there and Dermot Weld's charge accounted for It Has To Be by ten lengths.

There was three parts of a length back to odds-on favourite Sweet Company in third.

Sweet Company's jumping didn't always come up to the mark and he seemed to spook and jump at the rail on the turn into the straight.

Winning owner J P McManus' racing manager Frank Berry said: "He's had a few issues and Dermot has done well to get him back. He jumped well in a steadily run race, and got his own way a bit up front.

"He'll probably go for a winners of one somewhere down the road."

(AM & EM)