EOIN McCarthy, leading trainer at the recent Listowel Festival, registered his first feature race success at Limerick on Saturday, when his progressive Shadow Paddy (5/4 favourite) landed the Listed Tote Guarantee, Never Beaten Novice Hurdle for the Complete Package Syndicate.

Successful at this course in May and again at last month’s Listowel fixture, Shadow Paddy was today ridden by Simon Torrens who improved the five-year-old to lead at the second last, before scoring by three and a quarter lengths from Ballykinlar.