COLIN KIDD’S versatile performer Rashaan is a credit to his connections and ground it out in the closing stages of Clonmel’s Tipperary Perpetual Cup Handicap, six days after finishing behind Wicklow Brave in the Champion Hurdle at Punchestown to hold the renewed effort of St Lawrence Gap by a head.

Niall McCullagh had the leg up on this smart hurdler, who is owned in partnership by the trainer’s mother Amy and Roisin Treacy, and Colin Kidd said of the 7/4 favourite: “To think he ran in the Champion Hurdle at Punchestown only last Friday – he’s as tough as teak and takes his racing so well. He’s brilliant and never knows when he’s beaten.