Tommy Stack's six-year-old, owned by JP McManus, jumped for fun at the head of affairs and seamlessly pulled away from his nearest rival to take the Grade Three contest by nine lengths.

Disappointment of the race was Clopf, who was pulled up along the straight.

Fozzy Stack, the winning's trainer's son and assistant, said: "We think we've now found the key to the horse - he needs to be up with the pace.

"Basically he's just a galloper and the reason he fell in his earlier races this season was that they went too slow and were quickening up when he fell.

"In future, we'll keep him to two miles and then try to force the pace.

"He'll go to Punchestown next, unless something happens to Tidal Bay and then he'll go to Aintree."