THE inaugural Irish Lady Riders National Hunt Series started with a bang for Áine O’Connor who partnered Spruced Up to an impressive success in the Fairyhouse 2020 Ladies Handicap Hurdle.

This two-mile race represented the first instalment in a seven-leg series that will climax back at Fairyhouse in November and, at a track that provided with her first double a month ago, the winning rider enjoyed a facile success.