< Orchestra Leader ran out an unlikely winner of the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Median Auction Race at Navan for the David Wachman stable.< Boris Grigoriev was sent off the 4-7 favourite after winning at Tipperary last time out and the Ballydoyle juvenile looked to have the race in the bag when he went clear a furlong out.
But he stopped to nothing despite all Joseph O'Brien's urgings, and Orchestra Leader (9-1) swept past under Wayne Lordan to take the spoils by a length and a quarter, with Snowflake Dancer snatching second.< Haziyna (3-1) is improving by leaps and bounds judged on her swashbuckling show in the feature Irish Stallion Farms EBF Fillies Handicap.
John Oxx's three-year-old went up by more than a stone after flashing home at Leopardstown in March and showed her subsequent Dundalk defeat was all wrong as she burst five and a half lengths clear when unleashed by Ben Curtis this time.< Nantucket Bay and 1-3 favourite Wakhan filled the first two slots from the start in the navanracecourse.ie Maiden and they were still there at the finish.
They were locked in a duel coming down the straight and the Joseph O'Brien-ridden Nantucket Bay (7-2), trained by his father Aidan, came out best by a length.
Ger Lyons' Casbah Rock (6-4 favourite) recorded his third victory from five starts in the last month by leading all the way in the Trim Handicap, holding Il Boro by a length and a quarter under Johnny Murtagh.
Willie McCreery's Mini Chou (8-1) zipped through a gap on the rail inside the final quarter-mile under 10lb claimer Ricky Doyle and ran on strongly to land the navanracecourse.ie Handicap by a neck from Calm Bay
Niall McCullagh challenged down the centre of the track on Late Debate in the Come Racing On June 10th Handicap and Jim Bolger's 20-1 shot put all previous form behind him to score by five lengths.
