MULTIPLE Grade 1 winning hurdler Bellshill, from the all-conquering Willie Mullins yard, is proving to be just as effective over the larger obstacles and made it two from two over fences with an authoritative round of jumping under Paul Townend in the Grade 2 Shannon Airport Novice Chase on the opening day of Limerick’s Christmas Festival.

Andrea and Graham Wylie’s 4/9 favourite came here on the back of an impressive chasing debut at Gowran Park and, bar one mistake in the back straight, could not be faulted. The six-year-old King’s Theatre gelding was never out of the first three and looked to be travelling best of all turning in.