Fascinating Shadow a nice prospect for the Shark

Fascinating Shadow (5/1) made a winning debut under National Hunt rules in the four-year-old hurdle at Cork.

A winner of his last two starts on the level, including at 40/1 on stable debut at Dundalk last month, Jody McGarvey's mount made headway to challenge the always prominent 9/4 favourite Igraine after the second-last.

He edged past that rival on the run-in to score by a length with Mitiva a further seven lengths away in third.

Winning trainer Shark Hanlon said: "I was advised to buy him out of Richard Hannon's by Ross Doyle (bloodstock agent) and he was dead right. He said he'd make a lovely hurdle horse but was going so well at home we had to go to Dundalk the last day - it was the first time I was there in eight years!

"He is a good ground horse and I might wait until Galway with him now where he might go for one of those 1m6f flat races.

"It is the same syndicate that owned Dime A Dozen but Paul Palmer, from Dublin, has joined to make it a four-member syndicate and I'm delighted for them.

Quotes from Tom Weekes