WHAT have the Grade 1 hurdle winners Feathard Lady and Voler La Vedette, Grade 2 hurdle winner Megans Joy, Grade 2 Cheltenham Festival chase winner Impervious, and the graded hurdle winner Bambootcha and graded chase winner Botani got in common?

They were all trained by Colm Murphy, in addition to a host of star geldings like Brave Inca, Big Zeb, and Quito De La Roque, and with such a record behind him it is worth taking a closer look at his latest blacktype-winning mare, Zanoosh (Harzand). Ridden by the very much in form Brian Hayes, fresh from his marriage to Rachael Blackmore, Zanoosh ran away with the Listed Apple’s Jade Mares Novice Hurdle at Navan, a race won two years ago by Brighterdaysahead.