The Michael Halford trained Vincy justified 5/4 favouritism to win on his second start at Dundalk this evening, landing the Crowne Plaza Package Median Auction Race under Halford’s stable jockey Shane Foley.

The son of Elzaam was held up behind the leaders before eventually moving his way through to lead inside the final furlong for a length win over Shes Ranger

Halford later said “he's babyish and got a bit of a bump early on but Shane said it just took him a while to get back travelling again,”

“Our horses generally come forward for a run and he did that from his first run. He's a lovely mover but he's a horse that is still quite babyish so we'll probably take our time with him now.

“Paul (Rooney, owner) bought him off us after his first run - Paul has plenty of patience and I'm delighted he's won for him.

“We won't be in any rush with him and he likes a nice surface. We had him tipping along there and it's nice to get a bracket for him. We'll see where we go from there.”

By Tom Weekes, quotes from Gary Carson