THE feature race on the opening day of the Winter Festival in Fairyhouse was the EasyFix Equine Handicap Chase and it also proved to be the pick of the performances on the clock with Dunvegan (138) maintaining his unbeaten record at Fairyhouse under a finely judged front-running ride by Bryan Cooper.

The cliché of jumping from fence-to-fence could not have applied more as the grey produced a series of flying leaps to assert his authority on the race.