O’Sullivan sees benefit of patience

THE Danny O’Sullivan-trained Benefit Night romped to a shock, all-the-way success in the featured Lucan Racing Leinster National at Naas yesterday.

Davy Condon, completing a personal double following the earlier success of Dermot Weld’s Prince Erik, allowed the blinkered eleven-year-old bowl along in front from flagfall, with eventual runner-up Lurgan his nearest pursuer all the way.

Stretching clear between the last two fences, 33/1 shot Benefit Night stayed on strongly to triumph by eleven lengths, recording his third win on the track and his first since landing a Grade 2 novice event at Naas in February 2007.