AFTER enduring something of a fallow period in a race he once farmed, Gordon Elliott was back in the winner’s enclosure in the Grade 3 Irish Daily Star Salutes Our Frontline Heroes Chase as The Storyteller continued his excellent season.

Already a dual winner and placed at Grade 2 level this term, the Patricia Sloan-owned nine-year-old was among four runners for Elliott in a race the trainer won five times in succession from 2011 to 2015.