THE five hours home from Kirkistown to Duncormick last Saturday evening didn’t feel as long as the trip north that morning for connections of Redbridge Rudi following the six-year-old’s victory in the afternoon’s three-runner winners of one.

Partnered as usual by Gary Murphy, the Fruits Of Love gelding was left on his own at the sixth last where the leading Clough Ranger was carried out (rejoining to finish a distant second).