DAVID Christie and Noel Kelly both saddled winners last Saturday at Punchestown, the former striking first in the extended three-mile Ladbrokes Handicap Chase, where the always-prominent, Alex Harvey-ridden Marronstown scored by eight lengths.

The seven-year-old Frozen Fire gelding, who was winning for the first time on the track on his 13th start, is owned by the Castlehume Syndicate, in whose colours he landed a winners’ of two at Castle Irvine, Necarne, in November 2022.