COSALT, trained by James Burns at the Curragh, was an impressive winner at Down Royal yesterday and may go to the Festival Bumper at Cheltenham in March.

Cosalt, who was running for the first time since the Fairyhouse Easter meeting, had been off the course with an illness, but yesterday she came back in style to make all the running and fight off a late challenge from My Little Doxie, to win by two and a half lengths with Accountancy Native finishing third.

The race was the Flocheck Valves Mares flat race and afterwards Burns said: "We are delighted with her and thought she might need the race today. This has been a lucky course for me, for I rarely fail to have a winner here."

Cosalt was a local success for she is owned and was bred by Gerry Jennings in county Down and gave jockey Edgar Byrne a winner on his first ride at Down Royal.

Earlier in the day, the feature race, The Harp Lager Handicap Chase, was won with some style by Amme Enaek, who scored by seven lengths from Timely Affair. The winner was trained by permit holder, Gerry Keane, at Trim, Co Meath, and was scoring for the second time over fences, her previous victory having been in a hunter chase at Dundalk.

The father and son combination of owner, Tom Strong, and jockey Aaron Strong, were successful in the Calor Gas Maiden Hurdle when Glenfields Castle got home by seven lengths.

. Pat Fahy's Dun Belle, on target at Navan on Saturday, was successful again at Limerick yesterday when beating Ultra Fluffer and Woodville Star in the Murphy's Irish Stout Novices Chase.

A winner five times under Rules and twice at point-to-points in the last eight months, Dun Belle scored at Clonmel and Downpatrick last month to make yesterday's victory her fourth in four outings.