WITH 22 out of the 41 runners at Sunday’s Ward Union Staghounds meeting at Fairyhouse hailing from Co Wexford, it wasn’t at all surprising that three winners on the five-race card were trained in the south-eastern county with the absent Denis Murphy keeping his supporters extremely happy by sending out a double.

The Blackwater-based operator, who fielded four runners throughout the course of the afternoon with the other pair both finishing in the frame, instigated his brace courtesy of the Coastal Path-sired newcomer Hidden Heroics in the four-year-old geldings’ maiden.