EACH of the first three graded events on last Sunday’s card at Fairyhouse went to a horse representing the Sadler’s Wells sire line and the one who started the ball rolling was the French import Kalkir.

Bred by Haras des Coudraies, and trained by Willie Mullins, he finished fourth in a juvenile hurdle event at Auteuil in April, and his eight-length victory in the Grade 3 Bar One Racing Juvenile 3YO Hurdle at Fairyhouse came on his Irish debut.