LAST evening's Dawn Dairies Beginners Chase at a new look Kilbeggan may have lacked quality but the 15 strong contest, won by Mile A Minute, was one of the fastest run of the season with all bar the favourite jumping well and finishing the course.

Popular Kilbeggan, which consistently attracts a crowd of 5,000 for its six seasonal meetings keeps improving its amenities and the latest innovation is a £100,000 full tarmacadam covering in the enclosure.

Celtic Sunrise, favourite for the novice chase, blundered badly at an early stage and was never travelling thereafter. He was later examined by the vet and was found to be lame. In a good finish the Mickey Flynn trained, Anthony Powell partnered Mile A Minute stayed on stoutly to beat Brook Hill Lady.

Parskint, owned and bred by Mrs Paddy Mullins, was the easy winner of the Keenan Bros Handicap Hurdle. By Buckskin, Parskint is out of the remarkable Parijatak, all of whose six foals have won including Sayparee, successful in the Scottish Champion Hurdle, and Pargan who won a Players Amateur Handicap at Galway with 12st.

The stewards inquired into the apparent improvement of the winner compared to her previous run at Killarney where she finished last of seven runners. Paddy Mullins explained that the filly was then fitted with blinkers and never jumped throughout the race. The explanation was accepted.

Devil's Holiday, lead horse for some years for Royal Ballerina and the prospective lead horse for Kooyonga's hitherto unraced daughter, the two year old Feminine Heart, had to survive a stewards' inquiry before keeping the Horse Leap Maiden Hurdle.

Trained by Michael Kauntze and a fourth winner over hurdles for his daughter Sophia who has won 10 races in all, Devil's Holiday had "blown up" in his previous race over timber at Leopardstown. "There is nothing left for him on the flat so we'll have to keep him hurdling," said Kauntze.

In the absence of Leggagh Lady, the Brusna Claiming Hurdle was won convincingly by Let It Ride, one of two horses in training at Drumree, Co Meath, by permit holder Aytach Sadik, a Turkish Cypriot.

The Mullingar Hunters Chase concerned What Thing and Teal Bridge from fully four fences out, with the former getting the upperhand before rising to the last.