Tellthemnuttin has proven a marvellous servant for trainer Willie Codd and registered her sixth career win in just over a year when landing the WorkPal Handicap Hurdle at Down Royal, under regular rider Dylan Robinson.

The six year old daughter of Shantou began her winning ways at Downpatrick on May 6 2016 and gained no less than four wins at her local Wexford racecourse in the interim. Today she was following up her May 6 ‘anniversary’ win at Wexford to become the third horse this evening, following on from Fiesole and Station Closed to record a second win this May month,

Wexford based Codd later said “she just keeps improving with every run and the step up to three miles has been a big help, which her pedigree suggested. Without any disrespect to the others, it wasn't the best of races and when I saw the list of declared runners I just thought that if she ran to form, she had to have a good chance.

“It didn't work out for us in Galway last year when our race was over at the second hurdle and I was almost kicking myself for running her because it came a bit soon and the lads were keen to have a runner, but of course we'd like to go to Galway again.”

"I hope the handicapper isn't too hard on her because she's not very big but she loves the ground. The longterm plan is to pick up a bit of black-type somewhere because she's going to be a valuable broodmare.

By Tom Weekes, quotes from Michael Graham