Success for Walsh Family at Punchestown

Katie Walsh who partnered two winner's at this years Cheltenham Festival was back in the winner's enclosure after she won the Ernst & Young Handicap Chase aboard Battlefront who was trained by her father Ted.

Walsh who was sporting her mother Helen Walsh's colours was in front turning in and kept on gamely from the last to score by an easy eight lengths.

Winning trainer Walsh commented: "He jumped like a buck. I couldn't believe he was the price he was, he had beaten the favourite before and if he was going to be in the frame so were we."