FEW stables in the country have their horses in the type of rude health that Paul Nolan currently has his string in, and the Co Wexford team hit the headlines on day one of the Navan Racing Festival with a virtually flawless display from their flagbearing mare Feet Of A Dancer in the Grade 2 Railway Bar Lismullen Hurdle.

It must bode extremely well for the remainder of the season that Cathy Byrne’s admirable seven-year-old was able to turn in this sort of performance, beating a solid yardstick in I’ll Sort That by eight lengths, after 247 days off the track.