Galway next on the agenda for Sunny South West

Sunny South West added to bumper wins at Clonmel and Tipperary earlier this year when successfully switching to hurdles in the Buy Tickets On corkracecourse.ie Maiden Hurdle.

The Sean Dalton-owned 5/4 favourite made virtually all and asserted approaching the last where a fine leap settled the issue.

He kept on well on the run-in under Phillip Enright to beat William Tell by five and a half lengths with That Danny Feeling a further two and a quarter lengths adrift in third.

Winning trainer Eddie Power said, “I’m very happy with him. In time he’ll want two and a half and that’s probably where we’ll go the next day in Galway.

“He never jumped those rubber hurdles before and was jumping Easyfix hurdles quite well at home. He had a look at a few of them but will come on a lot from that.

“He was probably travelling too well and had too much time to think about it going down to the jumps.

“He’s a horse with plenty of ability and we’ll keep trying till we find exactly how good he is.

“There is a two and a half mile novice in Galway on the Thursday. Ross (O’Sullivan) won it with a horse called Donnie Devito last year that I sold to him.”