IN a year that he is likely to remember with some fondness, Adrian McGuinness added a notable jumping success to his big race haul on the flat as Politicise struck at 25/1 in the Liam Healy Memorial Lartigue Hurdle.

Some 16 years after he won this race with Victram, McGuinness produced this Dooley & Shamrock Thoroughbreds-owned son of Camelot in great shape to bounce back from a couple of unplaced efforts.