ADRIAN Heskin rode his first winner since returning home from Britain on Magical Zoe (8/11 favourite) in the feature Listed Irish Stallion Farms EBF Pat Walsh Memorial Mares Hurdle at Gowran Park yesterday.

Henry de Bromhead’s mare finished second in the Jack de Bromhead Mares Novices’ Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival last season and she made the perfect start to this campaign by outclassing her rivals in this two-mile contest. Heskin looked confident he had Say Goodbye covered before the second last flight, and although Magical Zoe didn’t go on to win as well as it looked she might, she was a comfortable four-length winner at the line.