GAVIN Cromwell now lies within just 10 winners of his career-best tally of 33 set in the 2018/19 season and the trainer’s Darver Star looks like one that could be helping his yard’s haul over the next few weeks on the evidence of his victory in the Molson Coors Rated Hurdle.

This lightly raced seven-year-old picked up a 13lb hike in the ratings for scoring at Wexford in early April and he hadn’t been seen since finishing out of the frame in a handicap at Fairyhouse over Easter.

However, he looked to return all the better for a four-month break with a commanding display.

The Jonathan Moore-ridden Darver Star, who was returned at 5/1 having been double those odds earlier in the day, swept aside the favourite Road To Dubai just before the last flight en route to an easy nine-length triumph over the 120-rated Victoria Bay. This SSP Number Twentytwo Syndicate-owned gelding could be set for a rather industrious autumn.

Star Adventure (3/1), who looked a useful mare when making a winning debut in a Wexford bumper last month that has already produced four subsequent winners, bounced back from a defeat at Killarney in the Molson Coors Mares Maiden Hurdle.

In the colours of the Philip Meade Syndicate, the daughter of Gold Well showed a willing attitude for Sean Flanagan as she looked to be struggling to get to grips with the odds-on favourite Rebel Og before the last.

The Noel Meade-trained five-year-old gradually got on top though before hitting the line with half a length to spare over the 100/1 shot Castle Canny with Rebel Og the same distance back in third.

Meade also bred the winner and reported that he recently bought the winner (Glint In Her Eye) of the Killarney race in which Star Adventure was beaten.

As the last race loomed it threatened to be a rare Downpatrick fixture without a Gordon Elliott winner but Soldiers Hill duly justified odds-on favouritism for the trainer in the Hannontravel.com-sponsored bumper. A placed run behind Russian Diamond at Galway saw this Emily MacMahon-owned gelding returned at 9/10 under Jamie Codd and this useful four-year-old outclassed his opponents to win by a dozen lengths.