Review roscommon 29th Aug

< Snow Falcon made a successful return to action in the Budweiser Hurdle at Roscommon.

Absent since claiming Grade Two honours in the Boyne Hurdle at Navan in February, Noel Meade's stayer was sent off the 7-4 favourite, and Sean Flanagan was content to look on from the rear of the four-runner field.

Snow Falcon loomed up on the bit nearing the turn for home and after taking the lead soon after, stretched five and a half lengths clear of Sadler's Risk < Tara Dylan regained the winning thread in the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Fillies Handicap.

The assessor appeared to have caught up with Tom Mullins' four-year-old when her hat-trick bid came up just short at Killarney, but she resumed her progression with a resolute length-and-three-quarter defeat of Malinka at odds of 7-1.

Sir Edward Landseer registered a deserved success in the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Maiden.

Donnacha O'Brien had to sit wide in mid-division from stall 13 on the 2-1 joint-favourite, but took up the running in the centre of the track just inside the final quarter-mile and proved a length and three-quarters too strong for Cascavelle

His trainer Aidan O'Brien was responsible for favourite Hibiscus in the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Fillies Maiden, but she found little when push came to shove.

Her stablemate Eavesdrop gave a bold sight on the front end but had no answer when tackled by Dermot Weld's A Shin Kildare (11-4), who crossed the line a length to the good.< Valentana (3-1 favourite) is going from strength to strength and defied a further rise up the handicap to complete a hat-trick in the TheTote.com Handicap for Willie McCreery and Billy Lee.

Last-start winners Lasoscar (100-30 favourite) and Craig Star (7-2) locked horns after the final flight in the Tote Handicap Hurdle and with neither giving an inch, the judge couldn't separate them and a dead-heat was probably the fairest result.