ON a low-key, pre-Royal Ascot weekend, Aidan O’Brien and Johnny Murtagh doubled-up with two of Ballydoyle’s lesser-lights, Emperor Hadrian and Ferdinand Magellan, at Navan last night.

AIDAN O’Brien’s well-bred, Hold Me Love Me gained a valuable winning bracket when making all under Seamus Heffernan to land the Cariglawn Maiden at Wexford last night.