PAUL Murphy’s €35,000 investment in a Kalanisi (Doyoun) colt at the 2013 Tattersalls Ireland November Sale has been well justified and that purchase is now winner of four of his five starts, and has amassed earning in excess of three times that spend.

Subsequently named Kalashnikov, the five-year-old is trained by Murphy’s daughter Amy and on Saturday the gelding won the richest handicap hurdle run in Britain, the Grade 3 Betfair Hurdle at Newbury. This was the most significant of his four wins to date, and the only time he suffered defeat was in the Grade 1 Tolworth Hurdle last month when he was third to Summerville Boy.