JOHN Constable could head to Ireland for the Galway Hurdle after defying a 16lb rise in the weights with an emphatic victory in the Betfred TV Summer Handicap Hurdle at Market Rasen.

Trainer Evan Williams is tempted to look at the highly-competitive and very valuable handicap after the six-year-old backed up his Swinton Hurdle success at Haydock in May in some style.