SELDOM, if ever, will Shark Hanlon spend £600 better than he did when securing Skyace at last year’s Tattersalls Ireland Ascot November Sale as the daughter of Westerner made it two wins from as many starts for the trainer in the two-and-a-half-mile conditions hurdle.

After being placed on all three of her bumper runs, this mare was then picked up at that Ascot sale and she provided her owners, the Birdinthehand Syndicate, with a near €6,000 dividend when winning a Tipperary maiden hurdle last month.