HENRY de Bromhead and owner Barry Maloney, who have enjoyed such great success with the likes of Monalee and Minella Indo, look to have another useful type on their hands in Champagne Gold who got off the mark on his second racecourse outing in the extended two miles maiden hurdle.

This placed point-to-pointer showed up well to chase home Gold Des Bois in a Clonmel maiden at the outset of October and he looked to better that form in beating Pienta, who was third in that same race, by a greater margin this time. Indeed these two rivals did battle from three out and Pienta briefly had a spell in the lead but Champagne Gold and Dylan Robinson were firmly on top from the turn in. The 5/4 favourite deftly negotiated the last two flights for a four-and-a-quarter length victory over Place Des Vosges and there should be more to come from him in the next few months.