THE €27,000 that Kevin Ross spent on a colt foal by Mahler out of Glebe Beauty last November at Tattersalls Ireland looks better value now, following the success of the colt’s full-brother in the Grade 3 Limestone Lad Hurdle at Naas. It was some 10 months after he last saw a racecourse

The six-year-old JP McManus owned Sutton Place was third at 50/1 on his debut over hurdles, landed a Fairyhouse bumper next time out at odds-on, and has since won all his starts over hurdles, including a listed race at Naas and the Grade 2 Rathbarry Stud Hardy Eustace Novice Hurdle at Fairyhouse.