La Canaada and Joe Doyle score in style© Photo Healy Racing
La Canaada could be called the winner a long way out in the five furlong apprentice handicap at Navan as she made all for an easy success.
Joe Doyle jumped his mount out in front on the rail and she travelled strongly throughout .
The young jockey was still standing upright in the irons a furlong out as his rivals toiled and only got busy close home to make sure of things.
Gerry Stack 's charge was a three-and-three-quarter length winner at the line from 9/2 favourite Amour Fou
The winner was sent off a 10/1 shot, having traded at 6/1 in the morning, and had produced three decent runs over the minimum trip this season.
It was a welcome winner for Stack, his first in over six years, as the trainer had been suffering with injury for the past couple of years.
"I've had very few runners. I broke my leg very high up near the hip and it's been an ongoing problem for nearly two years. I'm due to get pins out in a few weeks," revealed the Athy handler.
"I'm thrilled to bits. I have to thank the jockey and his agent and the jockey's trainer (Charlie Swan) who spoke to him this morning. I'd say he gave him more instructions than if he was riding in a three-mile chase.
"My instructions were not to sit against the horse or push the head off her but let her breathe and he did it to perfection. I couldn't ask for anymore.
"It's not for me, a trainer that gets so few horses and so few winners, to criticise the handicapper but he dropped her right to the bottom and she was in the doorway for being thrown out.
"She was recorded as lame twice. The first when she got struck into and then when she stood on a shoe. He gave her a mark of 44 and totally disregarded that fact.
"I knew she had the ability and her dam won over a short trip for me. She just likes to jump and run."
(On course reporting by Alan Magee)
