POINT-to-point followers betting at Thurles last Thursday should have had a profitable afternoon with six of the seven winners having started their careers between the flags. Okay, probably most gave the opening mares’ chase a miss as only two of the four declared runners stood their ground and the winner, Listen Dear, was returned at odds of 1/12.

Now trained by Willie Mullins for the Supreme Horse Racing Club, the Robin Des Champs six-year-old, who has now won a bumper, three hurdles and two chases, started her career with Sam Curling for whom she had just the one run, finishing second in a four-year-old mares’ maiden at Largy in May 2014.