Navan double completes terrific day for Joseph O'Brien

The O’Brien double had been initiated when 94-rated Dense Star belatedly opened her account, at the seventh attempt, in the opening Foran Equine Irish EBF Auction 2-yo Maiden.

Tammany Hall and Billy Lee (left) wins the Premier Nursery from Tar Heel. Picture: Healy Racing

On a day when he won the Group 2 Park Hill Stakes at Doncaster with rapidly improving filly Pista, Joseph O’Brien also took the training honours in Navan, delivering a double with favourites Dense Star and Baron Samedi.

Three-year-old Baron Samedi, ridden by Donegal teenager Dylan Browne McMonagle, completed a notable hat-trick with another facile success in the Market Square Handicap.