Jockey Shane Foley completed a hat-trick of wins at Dundalk this evening when steering the Anthony McCann trained Shabra Emperor to win the concluding Irishinjuredjockeys.com Handicap.

Foley earlier produced Vincy and Shannon Soul with late challenges to win their respective heats for trainer Michael Halford and employed similar tactics on Shabra Emperor who improved to lead inside the final furlong before scoring his win.

McCann later commented “we took him here last week for a piece of work before racing and he impressed us.

“He quickened up well there and it was an average enough race; in these type of races everything has to go to plan and it happened to go to plan for him.

“It was good to get him back in action and he's been a very good servant to me. I don't know if he'll get into another 45-65 — I doubt it but there are a couple of races coming up for him so we'll just have to try our best.”

By Tom Weekes, quotes from Gary Carson