NOEL and Valerie Moran spoke at length with me earlier this year, talking about their love for racing, their hopes for the future, and at the weekend in Navan they had the sort of success that their huge investment in Bective Stud, and in young stock at the sales, fully deserved.

Wingmen, whose pedigree is profiled on the following page, kicked off on Saturday with victory on his hurdling debut, and later Found A Fifty (Solskjaer) won the Grade 2 Bar One Racing Fortria Chase. The Bective homebred The Yellow Clay (Yeats) continued the winning run with success in the Grade 3 Monksfield Novice Hurdle, and then Better Days Ahead (Milan) made a winning debut over fences, with the promise of better to come.