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Review navan 6th Dec
Wounded Warrior
© Photo Healy Racing
< Clarcam looks a young chaser with a bright future after winning the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Novice Chase at Navan with ease.
Gordon Elliott's 10-11 favourite was second to Vautour on his only previous chase start and was eased into the lead at the third last.
Bryan Cooper never had to get serious on the four-year-old as he stretched five lengths clear of Sizing Codelco
That was the first leg of a double for Cooper, who booted Wounded Warrior home to land the Drogheda Beginners Chase.
Noel Meade's 11-10 favourite tracked the early pacesetter Empire Of Dirt and though he was joined when hitting the front by Blood Cotil he strode away from that rival to win by six and a half lengths.
There's a number of excellent horses on the roll of honour for the Kells Maiden Hurdle and Modem added his name to a list including Vautour, Un Atout and Monksland.
Jessica Harrington's 12-1 chance was always prominent under Robbie Power and after taking up the running two out, he stayed on well to beat Last Encounter by a length and a half.
Robert Tyner's Killeena House (10-3) recovered from a slight bump at the second last to run out a convincing winner of the Dunmoe Mares Maiden Hurdle, coming home a length and three-quarters clear of Emcon under a motionless Philip Enright.
Tyner and Enright completed a double of their own when Its The Ice I LIke (7-4 favourite) saw of all challenges in the home straight to breeze home in the Dean Hill Handicap Chase, beating Heavenly Brook by four and a half lengths,
Whatareyoudoingtome (25-1) got up close home under Luke Dempsey to land the Yellow Furze Handicap Hurdle, while the 2015 Navan Race Membership Club On Sale Flat Race went the way of Willie Mullins' Turcagua (5-6 favourite) under the trainer's son Patrick.