PAUL Townend returned from a superb six winners at the Cheltenham Festival to partner Mister Policeman in the Grade 3 Pierce Molony Memorial Novice Chase and the highly regarded six-year-old duly landed odds of 3/10 in the Grade 3 feature.

Trained by Willie Mullins for Rich and Susannah Ricci, he was sent to the front before three out in this near two-mile-two-furlong event and was ridden out by the champion jockey on the run-in to repel the challenge of Thecompanysergeant by a length and a half.