Chance To Dance is impeded inside the final furlong as Obliterator drifts right© Photo Healy Racing
< Chance To Dance was handed the race in the stewards' room after finishing second in a dramatic conclusion to the feature Carlingford Stakes under the lights at Dundalk.
Jim Bolger's four-year-old, a 5-2 chance after finishing runner-up in a similar event at the Curragh last weekend, came through to challenge Obliterator in the final furlong of the Listed contest in the hands of Kevin Manning and went down by a head.
However, the Ger Lyons-trained leader had edged markedly right under Colin Keane in the closing stages on his return to action after four months off and the stewards took exception, demoting the 8-1 shot.
Conor McGovern rode the first winner of his career on Slipper Orchid at Dundalk a week ago and he returned to the track to repeat the dose on Mick Halford's mare in the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Fillies Handicap.
The 11-4 chance tracked Kiss The Stars and favourite Maremmadiavola into the straight and was pulled to the outside to challenge, swooping late to score by a length.
Shane Foley got Strait Of Zanzibar away quickly in the Crowne Plaza Race & Stay Package Handicap and Ken Condon's 12-1 shot was never headed, stretching away from the always prominent Maudlin Magdalen in the straight to win by two and a half lengths.
Shane Donohoe's youngster Sparklingsovereign was sent off a 33-1 chance for the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Fillies Median Auction Maiden but belied those odds with a scintillating strike, shooting clear to win by five lengths in the hands of Leigh Roche.
There was another big-priced winner when Jim Bolger's juvenile Algonquin (20-1), a son of dual Champion Stakes heroine Alborada, hit the front in the final furlong under Rory Cleary and held the odds-on Sacrificial to take the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Median Auction Maiden by a short head.
In-form teenager Donnacha O'Brien took the apprentice race on 12-1 shot Misty Lane while Wayne Lordan was an easy winner of the first division of the extended 10-furlong handicap on Solar Heat (14-1) and Shane Foley doubled up when Minot Str
