ANY Second Now won on his racecourse debut last month at 66/1 and at the weekend showed that it was no fluke as he overturned the odds-on Willie Mullins runner Crack Mome to take the honours in the Grade 2 Sky Bet Moscow Flyer Novice Hurdle at Punchestown. How good he might be is debateable at this early stage, but he is a horse that could scale the heights.

Bred by Noreen McManus and racing in the colours of her husband JP, Any Second Now is a five-year-old son of the hugely successful Oscar, and he is the first gelding and first winner for his Topanoora dam Pretty Neat. She was obviously useful and having finished runner-up on her debut in a bumper, she was pulled-up by AP McCoy on her only other outing over hurdles and retired to stud.