HE may have been an 80/1 shot beforehand but The Brimming Water won in the style of a short-priced favourite in the first division of Fairyhouse Website For Merchandise Maiden Hurdle at Fairyhouse yesterday.

Eric McNamara’s six-year-old son of Yeats had been beaten all of 57 lengths on his previous start at Thurles and was pulled up on his hurdles debut at Limerick prior to that, but he travelled like a good horse in this two-and-a-half mile contest.