Les Darcy (nearest) just gets up to deny Shinyhappyjohn© Photo Healy Racing
Pat Flynn saddled two horses in the www.navanracecourse.ie Handicap with Little Sweetheart going off the 7/2 favourite while Les Darcy went off an unconsidered 25/1 shot.
As so often happens in the racing the outsider of the two prevailed, getting up close home to score under ten pound claimer Ian Queally.
The Brendan Hopkins owned three-year-old son of Haatef was making his handicap debut this afternoon having finished last on his three starts in maidens.
Settled towards the rear for much of the contest he was ridden and switched to the outer three furlongs out.
He improved into fourth with a furlong left to race and he kept on best inside the final furlong, getting up in the closing stages to score by a nose. Shinyhappyjohn who hit the front over a furlong out, had to settle for second under Leigh Roche for James Nash at 9/2, while Suburban Sky was a further two and a half lengths back in third under Gary Carroll for Jane Foley at 7/1 (opened at 10/1 on-course).
The aforementioned favourite prove a big disappointment as she could only manage eleventh under Danny Grant.
Ian Queally said afterwards: "He jumped nicely and I settled him and he stayed on well. He is a nice horse.
"Pat told me to ride him to finish well. That is three winners for me now."
Additional reporting by Michael Graham
