RESTIVE has shown improved form with each run and landed the opening maiden at the Curragh on Sunday with some ease in the colours of Qatar Racing Limited. Ger Lyons has charge of this two-year-old son of Rip Van Winkle who was purchased as a yearling by David Redvers for £110,000 at the DBS Premier Yearling Sale. He was bred by Denis Brosnan’s Epona Bloodstock.

The colt’s yearling half-sister goes to the same venue the week after next and she is a daughter of Intense Focus.