Lifetime Ambition © Photo Healy Racing
The 8/15 favourite Lifetime Ambition was too classy for his rivals in the Jack Tyner Memorial Hunter Chase.
Prominent throughout, the Kapgarde gelding took the lead a mile from home and kept on well to beat Break The Boundary by 11 lengths.
Formerly a very smart performer for Jessica Harrington, the nine-year-old returned earlier this season to his original trainer Pat Doyle whose daughter Susie was on board in the colours of Linda Mulcahy and Mary Wolridge.
Doyle said: "He has been lucky and unlucky as Susie fell off him the last day and she gave out to me for getting beaten on him at Ballindenisk (in December). I wasn't riding him but she gave out to me so I don't know how that works!
"He is a beautiful horse, has done everything right but it is a pity we weren't qualified for Aintree as he was over-qualified. We thought we had the real deal for the race but he had been placed in the 2022 John Durkan (Grade 1) so isn't qualified this year.
"We will go to Punchestown instead, if the ground isn't heavy.
"We have a great family team at home and Susie is having a great time."
Quotes from Tom Weekes
