Gift Wrap and Conor Hoban© Photo Healy Racing
Aidan and Ana O'Brien teamed up to land the spoils in Dundalk's Christmas Race & Dine Packages Handicap with Bishan Bedi < Strait Of Zanzibar and Hes Our Music turned in with a clear advantage, with the latter setting sail for home at that point.
He was there to be shot at and as the pack closed, Bishan Bedi (7-1) finished best of all towards the inside, hitting the front in the final 50 yards en route to a three-quarter-length victory.
Aidan O'Brien then combined with his son Donnacha to win the Irishinjuredjockeys.com Handicap with Udogo
The word was out prior to Love Potion s introduction in the Irish Stallion Farms European Breeders Fund Fillies Maiden because she was backed down to 11-10 favouritism.
The daughter of Galileo, who is entered in next year's Irish Oaks, looked green as she made her challenge down the centre of the track, but there is clearly an engine there and she was value for more than the half-length defeat of Double Espresso suggests.< Gift Wrap took her time to enter the stalls but lacked nothing in the way of enthusiasm when it got serious in the Christmas Party Packages At Dundalk Stadium Nursery Handicap.
Conor Hoban took the bull by the horns and sent the 4-1 chance to the front 100 yards after the start and she dictated terms from that point to beat Stone Mountain by six lengths.< Little Sweetheart burned off her rivals in the Crowne Plaza Race & Stay Handicap.
Sent off at 11-4 to build on a back-to-form second here last month, Pat Flynn's filly was bounced out into the lead by Leigh Roche and she never saw another rival, passing the post a length and a quarter ahead of Fast In The Wind
Last week's course scorer Empresario followed up in the Crowne Plaza Leading Jockey & Trainer Championship Apprentice Handicap (Div 1), with the second division going the way of Tortueuse who gave PJ O'Hanlon his first winner.< Automated has been keeping decent handicap company and showed his appreciation for having his sights lowered by making it 18th-time lucky in the Big Bad Bob Maiden.
