DARASSO won the Grade 3 Red Mills Trial Hurdle at the weekend on just his third start in Ireland for new connections. Joseph O’Brien is now training the six-year-old gelding for J P McManus. Prior to this the gelding was bred in partnership by, trained by and part-owned by Guy Cherel.

For him, and latterly owners Simon Munir and Isaac Souede, he won four times over hurdles in France, notably landing a pair of listed handicaps at Auteuil.