New Story was claimed following his win in the Irishinjuredjockeys.com Claiming Race at Dundalk this evening, having landed the contest for trainer Eoin Doyle and jockey Shane Foley.

The four year old son of New Approach had won twice in Britain in 2014 and having not raced in 2016, was today scoring for the third time on his sixth start for trainer Doyle.

Jockey Foley later said “he had a couple of solid runs in those kind of races and did it well.

“He obviously started with a rating of 90 and was down off 70 today, likes the all-weather and had been knocking on the door.

“They'd been riding him with a bit more patience and Eoin (Doyle) just said today to jump him out behind the leaders and if he's good enough he's good enough and thankfully he was.

“Off a rating of 70 I think he might be alright even in a handicap and could run well over a mile-and-a-half.”

Following the race, New Story was claimed for E8,000 by F.M. Carton to be trained by Mark McNiff while fourth placed Asian Wing was claimed by James Mescall to stay with his current trainer John Feane.

Quotes from Gary Carson