FOR the second evening in succession there was something of a turn up in the opener as Flaming Moon (11/1) upstaged several better fancied rivals to take the Listed Colm Quinn BMW Novice Hurdle for Matthew Smith and Bryan Cooper.

This five-year-old hadn’t been in the best of form on his recent starts but his winter form included a second in a maiden hurdle at Leopardstown at Christmas and his trainer’s uncanny knack of producing his horses in the form of their lives for this meeting was again in evidence here.