Battling Bus lands Troytown

OWNER Seamus Murphy and trainer Peter Casey crowned a memorable Sunday when ten-year-old Jack The Bus landed the €85,000 Ladbrokes.com Troytown Handicap Chase at Navan yesterday.

Murphy missed the Navan action, but was on hand at Aintree where his Hello Bud made all to win the totesport.com Becher Chase for Nigel and Sam Twiston Davies.

But Casey, who bred both Hello Bud and Jack The Bus and successfully point-to-pointed Hello Bud before he joined the Twiston-Davies yard, was present to savour the biggest National Hunt success of his career.