LIKE many others, Hartwell Stud’s Mary McCann has been a bit under the weather recently but she had a good pick-me-up last Thursday week when the Sue Magnier-owned Hear No Evil won the near two and a half-mile novices’ hurdle at Catterick.

From the first crop of Grange Stud’s Monsun stallion Getaway, Hear No Evil was winning for the second time from three starts over timber when justifying 4/6 favouritism in the hands of Harry Skelton whose brother Dan trains the bay six-year-old. Hear No Evil is the first foal out of the King’s Theatre mare Listening who was trained by Conor O’Dwyer to be placed over hurdles for the McCann family. Her second foal, Shush (a five-year-old mare by Flemensfirth), has been leased out to race before coming back to join the McCanns’ small number of thoroughbred mares. Mary sold Listening’s 2014 gelding by Arcadio and a 2015 colt by Getaway but has decided to retain the mare’s filly foal of last year who too was by Getaway.