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Little Village comes good

Sun 29th Apr 2012, 15:24

Kieran Cotter
© Photo Healy Racing

"She was working well with a filly of ours that was third in a maiden (Oonagh behind Absolute Crackers at Cork on April 7th). It was her first run for us and we fancied her a bit. She'll probably go to Dundalk next Friday for a five furlong handicap now," said Portarlington, County Laois-based trainer Kieran Cotter after his Little Village sprung a 25/1 (from 33s) surprise in the Navan Chairman Handicap.

Leigh Roche may have put up 2Ibs overweight on the former John McConnell-trained six-year-old but that mattered little as the Captain Rio mare, a maiden coming into this sprint, led a furlong out on the way to disposing of the gambled-on Stones Peak (at least 6/1 this morning into 4s) by a length and a half.

The victory of Little Village was a welcome one for Cotter, his first since Coughlans Locke triumphed at Ballinrobe in July 2009. (AM & EM)

Navan Chairman H'cap (Rated 47-70) €8,000.00 5f 182yds

1st

Little Village (IRE) (5)

25/1

Tote €28.30 €3.50

2nd

1.5L

Stones Peak (IRE) (14)

4/1Fav

€1.40

3rd

nk

Jouster (IRE) (2)

12/1

€3.40

4th

1.75L

Tohugo (IRE) (6)

14/1

€3.30

Ireland Jockeys Trainers Kieran Cotter Leigh Roche

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