THE Model Kingdom looked the most high profile runner on the final card of the year at Tipperary and Noel Meade’s talented charge duly made a winning start over hurdles in the two-mile mares’ maiden hurdle.

A Grade 3 bumper winner at the Punchestown Festival and off the track since being beaten at odds-on in a flat maiden at Roscommon in early May, The Model Kingdom looked to face an especially straight forward task as suggested by odds of 1/6.