Stage Summit © Photo Healy Racing
Stage Summit was the horse for money in the concluding bumper at Limerick and that support proved justified as he stayed on best in the closing stages to land the spoils.
Roger McGrath 's charge was backed from 5/1 this morning and eventually went off a 3/1 shot on course.
Declan Queally sent his mount to the front two furlongs out and asked him for his effort going to the furlong marker.
He got first run on 11/10 favourite Crumpledandcreased (4/6 in morning), who travelled strongly into contention down the straight, but couldn't pick up from the furlong pole and had to settle for second, a length-and-a-half behind.
The winner had pulled up on his sole point-to-point outing and had been beaten nearly 30-lengths on his 'track' debut in a Listowel bumper last month.
Roger McGrath, cousin and namesake of the trainer, was the winning owner and he said:-
"He was very well fancied today; he was sick when he ran in a point to point and we ran him at Listowel but he was gasping a good bit so we got him lung-washed and he came right.
"He wanted a bit of better ground and that was a worry. I'm a selling man and always sell; if he isn't sold, he'll go racing then."
(Additional reporting by Thomas Weekes)
