Little Queenie defies odds to land Navan spoils 

Dylan Browne McMonagle has two winners on the day to move three wins clear of reigning champion Colin Keane in the title race

GREY DAY: Little Queenie and Robert Whearty (far) win the Navan Racing Festival Early Bird Tickets On Sale Now Handicap from Nezeeh (near) at Navan on Thursday.  Picture: Healy Racing 

Sent off 15-2 outsider of the six runners, the Paul Flynn-trained mare Little Queenie took the featured Navan Racing Festival Early Bird Tickets Handicap, over just short of six furlongs, in Navan.

An 18th winner of the season for apprentice Robert Whearty, the six-year-old grey, notching her seventh success, got the better of Nezeeh by a half-length, prompting her enthusiastic trainer to acknowledge: “She goes on that ground, but it blunts her speed, so I was a bit worried.