IRISH-BREDS had a great day at Haydock Park last Saturday and captured three of the four graded races on offer. The New One took the honours in the Grade 2 stanjames.com Champion Hurdle Trial for the third year running and was regaining winning ways after his second place finish to Yanworth in a Grade 1 last month.

The now nine-year-old son of champion sire King’s Theatre was bred in partnership by Ronald Brown and Ballylinch Stud and he is the first, and to date only, runner for his dam Thuringe, a French-bred daughter of Turgeon who showed her only piece of form when placed in a listed hurdle race in her native country. Trained by Nigel Twiston-Davies, The New One has three times challenged for the Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham, finishing third, fourth and fifth, but he was a Grade 1 winner there as a novice.