"He's a great old horse," said trainer David Marnane after the Damian Lavelle-owned Jamesie sprung a 14/1 surprise in the Irishinjuredjockeys.com Race at Dundalk under Connor King.

The second longest priced participant of the eight for this six furlong event, the Kodiac seven-year-old got to the front a furlong out and fended off Eisenhower and Togoville by three parts of a length and a short head.

"He won well in Navan, when he was entitled to win, and I thought he ran really well in the handicap last time when he was 5lb wrong under a penalty and got no cover," added Marnane.

"He'll come back here for the Mercury Stakes and there is also a race for him in Lingfield in mid-November. He loves this surface."

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