RESTRAINT OF TRADE built upon the promise of his National Hunt debut when winning the Dundee Partnership Novices' Hurdle at Bangor.

One of the horses caught up in the Mahmood Al Zarooni drug scandal, he was bought for a bargain 18,000 guineas by Jennie Candlish and Alan O'Keeffe.

After finishing third behind two classy types at Aintree on his hurdling debut - his first run for new connections - the 11-10 favourite had to show a different side to his character to win this time.

Restraint Of Trade met several hurdles wrong and needed to fight his way through a small gap, but he knuckled down for Peter Carberry to beat Never Never by two and three-quarter lengths.

"We were delighted with that," said former jockey O'Keeffe, now assistant to his partner, Candlish.

"He did a lot of things wrong. He was keen early and didn't jump great, but he still won.

"He was a good horse on the Flat and I think the reason we got him so cheap was because people thought he'd been injured.

"But we looked into it and he was actually one of the Al Zarooni horses banned from running so that explained why he'd been off so long.

"Since we've had him he's never taken a wrong step so he looks a nice buy.

"We won't be rushing him - I think he wants much better ground than that - so we might keep him for the spring now.

"We'll run him in handicaps as I think the quicker they go, the better he'll be.

"Against better horses at Aintree they went a good gallop and he settled straight away.

"I was delighted with his attitude as you're never sure when they come off the Flat, but he really dug in and that pleased me more than anything."

The market said the Fourseasons Marquee Hire Maiden Hurdle was a two-horse race and so it proved, but odds-on favourite Ma Du Fou had to settle for second behind Charlie Longsdon's Coologue (5-4).

The pair pulled 45 lengths clear of the third home, Youngdocgallagher.

Venetia WIlliams' Jupiter Rex (3-1 favourite) returned to winning ways in the Uniformity Clothing Handicap Chase, while Mister Grez (13-8) continued the good form of Dan Skelton's yard in the Global Retail Interiors Handicap Chase.