The eight hour journey to Killarney for Donegal trainer Shaun Harley paid off when Belle Noverre landed the Derrinstown Stud Apprentice Claiming Race under the handler's brother, Martin.

Part of a double for Shaun when she scored a couple of runs back under Johnny Fahy at Hamilton, the daughter of Noverre led about a furlong down here and she stayed on well to see off the staying-on Maal by a length and a half.

Shaun commented of the Lough Derg Syndicate's well-backed scorer (6s into 9/2): "We fancied her big time. She just seemed to have turned the corner lately."

Belle Noverre has now won two races for connections having been claimed out of a similar event at Ballinrobe. She was then trained by Jim Bolger for whom she won two also.

There were no claims for any of the runners.