Bamako Moriviere and Danny Mullins have them on the stretch© Photo Healy Racing
After running well in a couple of competitive handicaps over the course at the Festival meeting, Bamako Moriviere with a tongue-strap deployed, came good for Willie and Danny Mullins in the Track & Cash Out With The Ladbrokes Grid App Handicap Hurdle at Punchestown.
Susannah Ricci's Califet five-year-old made all, and he was clear entering the straight. He mightn't have been entirely fluent at the last but the 4/1 favourite kept up the gallop on the run-in to see off Tom Mullins' Princely Conn by two and a quarter lengths.
It was the same distance back to the ultra-consistent Ancient Sands in third.
Willie Mullins said: "The dry ground suited and he's improving. I'd not be afraid to go out in trip, and he'll jump a fence some day.
"He'll keep going for the time being and we'll aim at Galway."
Mullins had earlier landed the Bet In-Play With The Ladbrokes App Chase with Alelchi Inois (Barry Geraghty).
Owing to the low lying sun, the Stewards granted permission for hurdle number two to be omitted from the fourth, fifth and sixth race.
(AM & EM)
