SEVEN-time Grade 1-winning hurdler Klassical Dream made a taking winning chase debut at Thurles on Thursday, completing the first leg of a double for his trainer Willie Mullins in the BetVictor App Irish EBF Beginners Chase.

Winner of the 2019 Supreme Novices’ Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival, the nine-year-old made a belated chase debut and under Paul Townend, fenced fluently and won effortlessly from Digby.