THE Newtownabbey-based agency Kevin Ross Bloodstock received special mention on Racing TV last Saturday following the impressive victory in Sandown’s Grade 1 Unibet Tolworth Novices’ Hurdle of the Harry Fry-trained, Gary Stevens-owned Metier.

The five-year-old Mastercraftsman gelding, who was winning for the third time in three starts over timber for his present connections, was previously trained in Co Tipperary by Andy Slattery for whom he won an extended nine-furlong Gowran Park maiden in August 2019.