CO CLARE native Gearoid Costelloe, who returned to the point-to-point training ranks this season following a break of nearly 12 years, saddled Grand Knight to win the concluding bumper for four and five-year-olds at Larkhill last Saturday.

The 2016 French-bred gelding, who was ridden by stable amateur Peter Bryan, was despatched as 4/6 favourite in the 12-runner field. Always prominent, he led three furlongs out before comfortably seeing off the year older mares, Madame Hannah (Tommie O’Brien) and Aunt Lily (Martin McIntyre), by six and a half lengths and three and a half lengths.