One for the old boys: Capture The Drama scores at grand old age of 14

Thursday: Clonmel

Not even Frankie Dettori is as demonstrative passing the post as Gavin Brouder was in the concluding 2m handicap chase. The Kerry jockey was punching the air from the 50-yard pole as he guided the 14-year-old Capture The Drama to his tenth career success in 108 starts.

It wasn't just the age of the winner which made this victory special but the unlikely manner of it. Capture The Drama looked beaten when runner-up Fly De Megaudais went on before the second-last, but the veteran battled back and defied being 16lb out the handicap to score by eight lengths.

"Will we find a buyer?" joked his trainer Aengus King, who bought the horse for just €1,200 as a four-year-old.

"He's magic," he said. "He's unbelievable at home because he should be retired for all the racing he has done, but he has never taken a lame step in all the time I have had him. He is mad at home, you would think he had never seen a gallop, you would get up on him with no whip or nothing and just hope you would stay on.

"When he won all his races in 2016 and 2017 I rode him at home myself. He would keep you fit. I lost 5st in weight in five months riding him out and he probably lost his mind! I'm just delighted.

"He's in again at Thurles next week. I bought him as a four-year-old, and but for the fact that he won a point-to-point with him I might have said goodbye to him because he was so difficult. But I kept at him and kept him quiet, and then out of the blue he won at Gowran at 100-1. He was 15-2 today so somebody had him backed. It wasn't me anyway!"

Halibut has a few scares

There were a couple of odds-on hotpots on the card. Punchestown festival winner Magic Daze was turned over at odds of 2-7 by the Andy Slattery-trained Whosgotyanow under Cian Quirke in the mares' chase. Earlier on the card, though, the Chris Jones-owned and Emmet Mullins-ridden Halibut landed odds of 2-5 in the 2m maiden hurdle.

The French-bred son of Balko had been second in a pair of Punchestown bumpers on better ground in the spring, and despite the contrasting surface here, he won easily under Keith Donoghue, coasting past market rival Cillians Charm for a seven-and-a-half-length victory.

It was not without its moments, though. His jumping was very novicey. He literally headbutted the second flight out of the way and caused Donoghue to lose an iron briefly, but all was well in the end.

Mullins said: "He's a nice horse. It was an indifferent round of jumping, but he still has a lot to learn. The engine is there but we just have to put a few pieces together still. I would say we will be thinking smaller next time rather than bigger after a round of jumping like that."

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