MARK O’Hare was out of luck with his four rides at Fairyhouse over Easter, finishing a best-placed second on the Jim Dreaper-trained Sizing Coal in Tuesday’s hunter chase. However, he will have taken great pleasure in seeing Honeysuckle land the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Mares’ Novice Hurdle Championship Final at the Co Meath track on Sunday.

Providing rider Rachael Blackmore with a first Grade 1 success in Ireland, the Henry de Bromhead-trained five-year-old was recording her fourth straight victory over hurdles since being purchased for €110,000 by Peter Moloney’s Rathmore Stud at Goffs’ Punchestown Sale last year.