CONEY Island landed the Grade 1 Bar One Racing Drinmore Novice Chase and connections will be hoping he can follow in the hoofprints of recent past winners such as Valseur Lido and Don Cossack. The Pat Tobin-bred five-year-old son of Flemensfirth is the first winner for his unraced Milan dam Millys Gesture but he comes from a female line that is awash with top-class National Hunt performers.

That said, the family has recent origins in Moyglare Stud, one of the world’s foremost private breeding operations. Coney Island’s third dam Temporary Lull was an unraced own-sister to the leading American runner Martha Stevens, and she bred the Grade 2 winner Wait Till Monday and is grandam of the Grade 1 Canadian International Stakes winner Relaxed Gesture.