Gold Bullet calls the shots for Tom Taaffe

On an evening when Mikey Fogarty was concussed and sustained an injury to his right knee in a fall before being removed to nearby South Tipperary General Hospital, the Tom Taaffe-trained Gold Bullet landed the featured Suir Valley Chase in Clonmel.

The Andrew Lynch-ridden grey got the better of front-runner Baily Green after the challenging You Must Know Me slipped and fell at the second last.

“I’m delighted for that horse – he just didn’t stay in Cheltenham,” said Taaffe. “It’s encouraging that he did what he did three weeks after Cheltenham – you never really know until you run them. We let him down when he came home and he’s having a good blow. So he should come on for the race.”