An attractive son of the late lamented King's Theatre, Carlingford Lough is on his way to bigger and better things if his success in the Ladbrokes Handicap Hurdle at Galway is anything to go by.

Ridden by Galway Plate hero, Mark Walsh, in the same green and gold silks of J P McManus, Carlingford Lough was brought with his challenge galloping all over the opposition.

Once given his head before the last he extended away on the run-in to account for fellow J P McManus-owned runner, Dancing Tornado by six and half lengths.

Winning trainer John Kiely said: "It's nice to have a horse like him and he'd have liked the ground a bit drier.

"Today's win is some compensation for missing the big hurdle on Thursday. Looking at the winner of that though (Rebel Fitz), I'm not sure if we'd have beaten him."

Mark Walsh said: "He has plenty of class."

Carlingford Lough's dam, Baden was a multiple winner in her time and she finished down the field in the 1994 Galway Hurdle.(DM,VF,EM)