No doubting the star at Gowran Park as Cranky Corner made a winning debut over jumps for the top team of Willie Mullins and Ruby Walsh.
Seventh behind Dunguib in the Cheltenham bumper before finishing a slightly disappointing ninth at Aintree after travelling extremely well, he was always going to be hard to beat if translating that sort of form to life over obstacles.
Sent off the 5-4 favourite, the Trevor Hemmings-owned five-year-old barely put a foot wrong in the Full Golf Membership At Gowran Park Maiden Hurdle, cruising home by three and a half lengths from Stradbally
Mullins said: "I'm delighted with him. I think he will go on better ground and we'll try win another one or two with him before we put him away, and we may go chasing with him next season."< Always Be True defied an on-course market drift as she picked up nicely in the closing stages to take the Irish Stallion Farms European Breeders Fund Fillies Maiden.
Showing a willing attitude, the Derrick Smith-owned daughter of Danehill Dancer was pushed out by Wayne Lordan to get the better of 9-4 favourite Bea Bea Three who had the benefit of the rail, by a length.
Winning trainer David Wachman said of his 7-2 scorer: "She was a very good two-year-old year old last year but she had a little setback and it took a bit of time to get her right. She has a lot of big-race entries as we thought a lot of her last year so we'll see how things go."
The opener went the way of Ballydoyle as Coat Of Arms (4-1) got off the mark at the sixth time of asking in the Annual Golf Membership Available At Gowran Park (C & G) Maiden.
Seamie Heffernan was always prominent on the Aidan O'Brien-trained three-year-old and he kept on well inside the last to hold off Captain Henry by a length.
Six Of Hearts had a rare old battle with Impossible Dream before edging out the 9-2 joint-favourite in the Summer Sundays At Gowran Park Handicap.< Cape Vintage (12-1) was a comfortable winner of the Kilkenny Handicap for Tom Mullins in the hands of Shane Gorey, always holding The
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