“IT’S like buses, you’re waiting for ages and then two come along!” quipped Niall McCullagh after ending a spell of nearly two months without a winner by partnering an 87/1 double aboard Powersville and Noirvento.

Powersville, trained by Tom Mullins for his wife Helen, was also returning to form having dropped from a rating of 82 when successful twice as a juvenile in 2017 to take the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Fillies Handicap off a mark of just 55. The 7/1 chance challenged early in the straight and kept on well inside the final furlong to beat Keepthebestsideout by a length and a quarter.