IT was Gordon Elliott’s turn to dominate the headlines at Punchestown on Thursday.

We should have known that it would be an Elliott day when Pallasator won the first race run, the John Shortt Legends Challenge, under Norman Williamson, who must have felt like he was riding Alderbrook in the Kingwell Hurdle again, and when the pony-sized looking by comparison Tiger Roll chased him home to complete the Gordon Elliott exacta. (It paid €24.00 by the way.)