THE three Grade 1s at Fairyhouse last Sunday all went the way of the favourites, but Long Dog, Arctic Fire and No More Heroes advanced their standing to markedly varying degrees.

Arctic Fire had over a stone in hand of his rivals in the Hatton’s Grace Hurdle on Timeform ratings and won as that suggested without doing anything special on the clock (143 timefigure), while Long Dog took a further step forward when accounting for his stablemate Bachasson, who received weight, by a neck in the Royal Bond Novice Hurdle, the pair recording timefigures of 150 and 148.