ON an evening that was tough going for both horse and rider, a number of mares impressed and none more so than Henry de Bromhead’s Telmesomethinggirl in the John H. Kierans Memorial Mares Hurdle.

This Kenny Alexander-owned daughter of Stowaway got off the mark on her fourth outing on the track when winning at Roscommon a couple of months ago and she followed that with a third to The Very Man in a listed race Galway.