Warren Greatrex is targeting a return to the Punchestown Festival with The Nipper following a predictably facile success at Haydock.

The six-year-old won her first three starts in the bumper sphere last season, including a Listed event at Sandown.

She then journeyed across the Irish Sea for another valuable prize and was in the lead when she ran out and smashed through the rails.

Her jumping career got off to an inauspicious start when she fell at Wetherby, but she righted that wrong at Lingfield in January.

After following up at Newcastle, she was a 1-14 favourite to see off her only rival in the mares' novice hurdle on Merseyside.

The Nipper jumped well in the main and readily pulled 14 lengths clear of Your Turn, providing jockey Gavin Sheehan with his 50th winner of the campaign.

Greatrex said: "That's my first winner at Haydock. I don't have heaps of runners here, but a few have been touched off and it's nice to get that one in.

"She can be a bit quirky, as she showed at Punchestown last year. We did want a lead but I don't think the second horse could go the gallop she can.

"We'll look at Punchestown again. It sort of fits in as she goes and has her summer break in Ireland.

"I'll see what the handicap mark is and then we can look at handicaps or one of the novices."