In the colours of the It Will Never Last Syndicate, carried with distinction by the ill-fated Total Enjoyment, her half-brother by Michelozzo, Total Excitement made up for some disappointments lately by smoothly getting off the mark on the Flat in the Hook Head Maiden at Wexford.

Getting to the front with everything else covered under a furlong out, Davy Condon's mount kept on strongly to put two and a half lengths between himself and Cathrine De Medici The easy victor was justifying support from 6/4 into 4/5.

Tom Copper, who suffered a fall while schooling this morning, said of his charge, "I will keep him on the flat for now and he'll go to Tralee." (EM)