IT took him a long time to do so but, Castle North, a supreme champion at two, finally got his head in front on the racecourse.

The now seven-year-old Stowaway gelding, who is trained for Rose Boyd by Willie Mullins, won the two-and-a-half-mile maiden hurdle at Ballinrobe on Tuesday evening, having finished second at the western track over a slightly longer trip earlier last month.