ROCK On Ruby may not be quite the force he was at his peak but he added to his blacktype tally with a two and a half length score in the Grade 2 Coral Hurdle (registered as the Ascot Hurdle Race) over two miles, three and a half furlongs at Ascot on Saturday.

The 2012 Grade 1 Champion Hurdle hero, who has been with the Harry Fry team for the past three years, is a son of the Grange Stud stallion Oscar (by Sadler’s Wells) and he was bred by John O’Dwyer, who sold him for €23,000 in the foal section of the Tattersalls Ireland November National Hunt Sale a decade ago.