COMMANDINGPRESENCE looked a potential class act as he lived up to his name with an impressive debut in the Thank You Snowy For 40 Years Maiden Hurdle which could be the springboard to much greater things for Henry de Bromhead’s charge.

This Kalanisi five-year-old, bred by Thomas Maher is a graduate of the English point-to-point division where he finished second on his only start in Sherriff Hutton last January for Tom and Gina Ellis and has evidently progressed in his new yard.