WICKLOW Brave’s long standing association with the Listowel Festival yielded a fourth course success, this time in the Cheestrings Novice Chase, which has teed up the former Irish St Leger hero for an American raid next month.

The American Grand National at Far Hills in New Jersey is next for the remarkable 10-year-old who carved out his own piece of Harvest Festival history as he has now won a bumper, a flat race, a hurdle and a chase at this meeting over the space of six years.