THE Colin Kennedy-bred Alfredo won a mile and six bumper on his racecourse debut at Fontwell on April 1st this year and, while he had a second start under National Hunt rules later that month, he has since been campaigned on the flat by trainer Seamus Durack.

Having run in maidens over distances of 10, 12 and 11 and a half furlongs, the four-year-old Arcano gelding made his handicap debut over two miles on the all-weather at Lingfield on Tuesday, winning by half a length in the hands of Oisin Murphy and at the rewarding odds of 20/1.

Alfredo is the fifth of eight foals out of Western Sky, an own-sister of Barathea Guest and dam previously, among her other four winners, of the Aussie Rules bay Djumama, champion two-year-old filly in Germany in 2010.

Long out of the Kennedys’ Meadowlands Stud, the nine-year-old Verglas gelding Silvery Moon recorded his eighth success, and his second this year, when landing a mile handicap at Ayr last Thursday week for the Tim Easterby yard.

Beating fellow 5/1 joint-favourite Father Bertie by a head, Silvery Moon was one of just five foals out of the dual flat winner Starry Night (by Sheikh Albadou) who was also placed over hurdles. The best of the mare’s three winners was the Bahri gelding Gilbarry whose four victories under National Hunt rules included a Grade 2 novices’ chase at Ayr.

The Peter Bowen-trained Court King, the last of 10 foals out of the unraced Meneval mare Eliza Everett, came good on the 11th time of asking when landing a three-mile handicap hurdle at Uttoxeter last Sunday. Bred by Cecil and Martin McCracken, Court King is an Indian River half-brother to the Witness Box gelding Godsmejudge, whose five racecourse wins included victory in the 2013 Scottish Grand National at Ayr. Also on the mark at the Staffordshire track was the Nigel Twiston-Davies-trained Templehills, who won the two and a half-mile maiden hurdle by one and three-quarter lengths from fellow 9/4 joint-favourite, Burrows Lane. By Kalanisi, Templehills had three runs last season for Colin McKeever, carrying the colours of Wilson Dennison into second place in a five-year-old geldings’ maiden at Farmacaffley in late February on his final start out of Loughanmore.