CHAOS reigned as the traditional curtain raiser to the juvenile hurdle season in Ireland got underway at Roscommon where only seven of the 16 contestants made it to the finish of the Railway Bar 3-Y-O Hurdle.

Victory here went to the Denis Hogan-trained and Rory Doyle-owned Whyzzat (10/1) but the focus rested on the opening hurdle where Alice Kitty fell and the resulting melee saw five other horses exit. Two other horses pulled up as a result of interference they suffered at the first and later in the race Helvic Princess came down on the flat due to the unwanted attentions of a loose horse on her inner.