FRESH from saddling his first Grade 1 winner with Feronily on day one of the meeting, Emmet Mullins engineered another Punchestown masterstroke with £8,000 bargain buy Its On The Line, who rallied gamely to win the Irish Daily Star Champion Hunters Chase.

A half-brother to Welsh National winner Monbeg Dude, the improving six-year-old showed deep reserves of stamina on his third festival appearance of the spring, breaking the heart of Vaucelet under a sublime ride from Derek O’Connor.