A RECENT run of misfortune was banished to the distant past as the classy Davids Charm bagged the good flat prize that his talents deserved in the KWD Kingdom Gold Cup Handicap.

After a desperately unlucky defeat at the Curragh earlier this summer and a less than clear passage in the Galway Hurdle, where he still finished a fine fourth, the John Joe Walsh inmate was a well-backed 2/1 favourite for the €50,000 feature. Things went to plan for the Chris Hayes-ridden and Tom O’Brien partnership-owned eight-year-old at all stages of this one- and-three-quarter-mile event, and he found plenty under pressure over the last furlong and a half to defeat Dalton Highway by a length.