DJINGLE put up a really impressive performance in winning the beginners’ chase at Listowel on Tuesday.

Allowed to go to the front at the first fence by Adrian Heskin, John Queally’s horse’s jumping was fast and fluent, and he had all his rivals in trouble before he got to the top of the home straight.

He has been a free-going sort in the past, and there was a danger that his early exertions could have taken their toll over the last two fences, but that wasn’t the case at all. On the contrary, he ran all the way through the line, and it took Adrian Heskin a little while to pull him up after it.

A dual winner for Arnaud Chaille-Chaille in France over hurdles, the McNeills’ horse didn’t manage to win for Paul Nicholls, and this was his third run over fences for John Queally, but he is getting the hang of things on this evidence, and he could progress again now.

Le Richebourg won this race last year and went on to win three of his next four races, including two Grade 1 contests. JP McManus’ horse went to Tipperary on his next run after Listowel and won the Grade 3 Like-A-Butterfly Chase, and that would be a legitimate target for Djingle now.

IT’S going to be a tough call today: Irish Stallion Farms EBF “Sovereign Path” Handicap or All-Ireland Final replay throw-in, both set for 6.00pm. It could be a split-screen scenario.