CORK trainer Eugene O’Sullivan has never lost faith in A Decent Excuse and the eight-year-old gained consolation for not making the cut in the Galway Blazers Handicap Chase when plundering the €17,500 Pat Woodbyrne Memorial 0-123 Handicap Chase on the opening of Tramore’s four-day Festival.

Ridden by Jonathan Burke, the 8/1 winner is owned by O’Sullivan’s longest-standing owners, the Kilshannig Racing Syndicate, one of whose members Paddy Twomey was celebrating his 82nd birthday.