Noel Meade and Sean Flanagan© Photo Healy Racing
Noel Meade is confident Getaway Kid has not yet reached the ceiling of his ability following his impressive debut over fences at Down Royal.
The six-year-old is winless after 10 starts over hurdles, but was placed on his two most recent outings in that sphere, at Fairyhouse and Tramore.
He brought a hurdle rating of just 113 to his first start over the larger obstacles at Down Royal on St Stephen’s Day, but appeared a much improved horse, comfortably seeing off Grotesque in the hands of Sean Flanagan.
Meade said: “He’s one of those horses that you come across not that often in that he’s a fantastic jumper of a fence.
“Close or long he’s good — he just has unbelievable scope.
“He’s a big horse who was very backward early on and I hope he’s going to be a lot better over fences than over hurdles.
“We might go back in a hurdle race with him at some stage, but I’m imagine we’ll keep going over fences for the time being.”