ROBCOUR has become the go-to team for unearthing Stayers’ Hurdle winners and they might just have found their next big candidate for the Festival prize in Slade Steel, who recorded his first win of the season in the Grade 2 Rathbarry & Glenview Studs Hurdle.

After a spell over fences that saw him placed multiple times and sixth on his previous outing in the Jack Richards Novices’ Handicap Chase at Cheltenham, he appeared to relish reverting to hurdles in the first-time cheekpieces under Darragh O’Keeffe. This 6/1 success, beating Kawaboomga by a length and a quarter, ought to have given plenty of satisfaction to Henry de Bromhead.