Big Negotiator delivers for Twomey at Naas

Earlier on the card,  Aidan O’Brien was on the mark when Man’s Best Friend, fourth on debut, landed the six-furlong two-year-old maiden at the expense of newcomer Zoar and favourite New Bond Street

BIG STATEMENT: Big Negotiator wins the Arqana Irish EBF Marwell 2-Y-0 Stakes in the hands of Wayne Lordan. Picture: Healy Racing

Trainer Paddy Twomey landed the listed Arqana Irish EBF Marwell 2-Y-0 Stakes in Naas, not with 6-5 favourite Concorde Landed but with battle-hardened 11-1 shot Big Negotiator, who made all under Wayne Lordan.

The winner was tracked for most of the journey by her stablemate and found plenty up the hill to see off second favourite Shimmering Sun by a length and a quarter.