Hassett shines again as Navorrosse leads home McAuley 1-2

Wayne Hassett has really caught the eye this season and the teenage apprentice partnered his seventh winner in the past three weeks a Navorrosse led home a 1-2 for the James McAuley yard in the Safer Gambling Handicap at Navan.

The 7lb claimer switched the mare left towards the far rail under two furlongs out, and she kept on really well inside the final furlong to score at odds of 20/1.

Stablemate Pulse Of Shanghai also came home well just half-a-length back with Universally and Stanhope close up in third and fourth.

McAuley said, "She has really just started to come to herself. We always like a Dundalk horse and she is probably the only one we have a doubt over whether she will go there, so we were rushing to get her in somewhere and keep her fit. For a small filly she is very brave.

"I think we claimed her for three grand, so it is job done. She has earned being kept for the winter now. We'll give her a run (in Dundalk), but if it is not her bag of tricks she has earned her keep for the winter."

On the runner-up, he added: "He looks like he has got genuine again, he was getting a little bit jaded. He was one of the first off it (bridle) and I thought it would be a long way up for him but, to be fair, he really knuckled down.

"He will go in Dundalk, that's more his cup of tea."

Quotes by Michael Graham