BALLYLINCH Stud’s late stallion star King’s Theatre (by Sadler’s Wells) had another lucrative spell over the Christmas period and his winners included Minella Foru, the Eddie Harty-trained gelding who won the valuable Grade B Paddy Power Chase over three miles, 100 yards at Leopardstown last Sunday.

He was runner-up in a blacktype handicap chase at Fairyhouse a month before, and an easy winner at Limerick the time before that, but his recent success came on his first attempt over three miles since victory in his sole point-to-point nearly three years ago.