Found A Fifty returned to win a third successive BAR 1 Betting Fortria Chase at the Navan Racing Festival, the two-mile race going to the Gordon Elliott-trained nine-year-old under Jack Kennedy. With Majborough a non-runner due to the going, the former dual winner's task was eased, and Found A Fifty became only the second horse, along with Big Zeb, to take the race. Multiple Grade One winner Solness set a decent gallop early, but Found A Fifty hit the front two out as Solness weakened, extending his lead approaching the last to win by a length and a half from stablemate Touch Me Not, ridden by Danny Gilligan. Only By Night, ridden by Keith Donoghue for Gavin Cromwell, was third.

Elliott said the horse always got the stable out of trouble and that he had been nervous beforehand, given the horse is not getting younger, but that Navan is the local track for Noel and Valerie Moran of Bective Stud, so the yard had targeted the meeting. Elliott said he had jumped a little right down the back straight but was gutsy throughout, and that the horse seems better early in the season than late on, with the Hilly Way at Cork next on the plan depending on the ground. Noel Moran added that it was great to win at Navan and that the horse had now won there three years in a row, while acknowledging that Majborough's withdrawal had helped.S1S2

Earlier on the card, Paul Nolan's Feet Of A Dancer won the Grade 2 Railway Bar Lismullen Hurdle over two and a half miles at 17/2, ridden by Seán O'Keeffe, by eight lengths from I'll Sort That and Declan Queally, with Casheldale Lad third for Danny Gilligan and Gordon Elliott. The seven-year-old mare, who had won a Listed race at Punchestown and the Grade Two Yorkshire Rose at Doncaster last season, moved upsides long-time leader I'll Sort That between the final two flights, and O'Keeffe said she was even better than expected and still improving.S1S2

Elliott also opened the day's scoring with Thinkitdontjinxit, who won the Bar 1 Betting Download The App For Auction Novice Hurdle at 5/2 for Jack Kennedy by six lengths over State Pension, after the stable had been beaten by an odds-on favourite in the Saturday opener. Separately, Outofafrika at 4/1 won the Kilberry Pub & Kitchen Maiden Hurdle for Gavin Cromwell and Keith Donoghue, edging Charismatic Kid, the 4/7 favourite, by two and three-quarter lengths on the run to the line.S1