The John Joe Walsh trained Broder was the well backed winner of the attheraces.com Handicap Hurdle at Cork today, completing a double on the day for jockey Sean Flanagan.

Flanagan, earlier successful on Moyross for his employer Noel Meade, was riding his first winner for Walsh in the contest, as Broder battled gamely to fend off the challenge of He’s Our Man to score a half length win.

Locally based Walsh later stated “he might have won the first race but for the mistake (by his runner-up Glebe Girl at the last) and I was saying to myself ‘it’s good to get one’.

“He’s a not a bad horse and it took him a while to mature but he stays well and we’ll probably run over 2m4f next. He got a cracking ride from Sean and he’ll ride for me whenever he’s available as he’s a top class jockey.”