COLIN McBratney hit the ground running when the 2020/21 National Hunt season finally got under way at Limerick on Monday.

The Crossgar trainer, who had two runners at the eight-race meeting, saddled Cathal McGovern’s Benefit North to finish fourth under Denis O’Regan in the extended two-mile conditions’ hurdle and, 30 minutes later, sent out Laureate to land the handicap hurdle over the same trip and in the hands of Sean Flanagan.