Jarrive Dee Mee and Patrick Mullins © Photo Healy Racing
Former point-to-point winner Jarrive De Mee made an instant impact on his rules debut when making all the running under Patrick Mullins to land the Sign Up To GavinLynchRacing.com (Q.R.) Maiden Hurdle at Thurles.
Successful between the flags in April, the five-year-old was having his first start for champion trainer Willie Mullins in this lowly contest.
Sent straight to the front from the outset, Jarrive De Mee had his rivals on the stretch from some way out.
Although briefly looking in trouble when Beauforts Storm closed up on the run to the last, the eventual winner powered clear on the run-in to score by four-and-a-half lengths.
Winning jockey Mullins said: "He is a very nice horse, is by Authorized and out of a Great Pretender mare, he won a point-to-point and has now won a maiden hurdle easily. He is for sale to stay in the yard and will eventually jump a fence.
"Aubrey McMahon (agent) has had a lot of success and he pointed this horse out to me so deserved a lot of credit. He cost the price as a nice store horse so is the same as Full Confession (recent bumper winner) and they are nice types for nice kind of money.
"Meetingofthewaters (Paddy Power Chase winner) started off in my colours last year and I like this horse: I love those Authorized horses but they are hardy to get."
Additional reporting by Thomas Weekes.
