With NoLimit progresses again Grade One bumper winner With NoLimit (8/13F) took another step up the ladder as he won the John Lynch Carpets & Flooring Monksfield Novice Hurdle (Grade 3) over two and a half miles at Navan. A winning pointer for Johnny Fogarty in Liscarroll, Gigginstown House Stud paid £250,000 at Aintree for him, and he reimbursed them significantly when downing the Cheltenham Bumper winner, The Mourne Rambler, in the Grade One bumper at Punchestown last year. Like his ready maiden success, Jack Kennedy made all here, and although he had a slight tendency to jump right, the Bande gelding was very fluent at his obstacles. Gordon Elliott's favourite was pressed by Gillane approaching the last, but he found well for pressure to score by four and a quarter lengths. Pat O's Rock picked up third in the closing stages but was 12 and three-quarter lengths behind the winner. Gordon Elliott said: "As Jack says, you won't see the best of this lad until he jumps a fence. You can see the way he jumps his hurdles; he wants a fence. "Obviously, Cheltenham is going to be in the back of our head. I'd imagine we would probably look at something over Christmas or Naas in the new year. He's had two runs now, so there's no panic. "I thought he showed a great attitude, and I think he would be even better with a lead. "The only thing I would say is that I don't think he wants real, real heavy ground. He got beaten in the bumper (Navan, last December) and we couldn't understand how he got beaten, but the ground was really heavy that day. "He actually ran well in Cheltenham, just didn't work out for him on the day." Additional reporting by Michael Graham.
