CROMWELL'S TOWN CLAIMS THE BIG CZECH

STUMPTOWN claimed a famous success for Ireland in the Velka Pardubicka at Pardubice racecourse in the Czech Republic.

- BY NEIL MORRICE

Trained by Gavin Cromwell (inset) and ridden by Keith Donoghue, Stumptown won the Glenfarclas Cross Country Chase at the Cheltenham Festival in March but was subsequently pulled up in the Grand National in April.

The eight-year-old was back on top form for this extended four-and-a-quarter-mile cross country event, with Donoghue settling just off the pace as Sexy Lord, who dead-heated in the race last year, set the early gallop.