Favourite backers are hitting the target with pleasing regularity at Tipperary this evening and Boqa justified his price of 6/5 under Wayne Lordan in the Join The Tipperary Supporters Club (C & G) Maiden.

The twice previously tried son of Danehill Dancer had to battle though. When the need was greatest the 'jolly' found enough to see off Maskoon by a neck.

Denied by just a nose on his previous start, Tommy Stack has care of this fellow for Ms Mary Slack and the handler's son Fozzy said: "He's out of a half-sister to Oratorio.

"He's not the type to win a race by three or four lengths but if he was a human you wouldn't mind being beside him in the trenches as he'd definitely stand up and be counted.

"Wayne said he enjoyed the better ground and I think he might get a mile and a quarter.

"We'll see what the handicapper does but we might look at the Gallinule Stakes." (TW & EM)