WILLIE Murphy has introduced a number of subsequent big race winners into competitive action in the point-to-point fields, with horses of the calibre of Grade 1 victor Annacotty, Grade 2 second De Plotting Shed, and Ben Pauling’s 144-rated A Hare Breath all graduates of his Co. Carlow yard.

His Ballycurragh Stables appears to have produced another exciting individual in Global Citizen (2/1 favourite), a close relation to De Plotting Shed and A Hare Breath, who dominated proceedings to run out an impressive debut winner of the Country Fresh Dundalk five-year-old geldings’ maiden.