We're well familiar with the Paul Holden silks being carried to victory by Eoin Doyle trained horses but it was Philip Rothwell that provided the Kilkenny owner with a success in the Tipperary Handicap Chase via the Paul Townend ridden Decade Player

The victorious Gamut gelding shipped a heavy fall at Ballinrobe in August and indeed he didn't jump with much aplomb when sixth at the Listowel Festival since.

However with a rating to give him prospects in this sphere, Townend made all on the five-year-old with Musawama in pursuit.

Things didn't change much throughout the two mile one furlong contest and in the end Decade Player ran out a comfortable six lengths to the good from his aforementioned rival.

The others never really got a look in but Black Cache did alright in the circumstances to come home in third, a length and a quarter adrift whilst the winner's fellow Rothwell representative Ard Agus Fada came home well to take the fourth spot.

Rothwell said of his nicely supported 5/1 winner: "I expected him to win at Listowel but he jumped terribly.

"He's been schooled by Andrew Ring since, over a cross-country course, and it's helped to get his confidence back." (TW & EM)