Plenty of life in veteran stablemates Favourite Treat and Bogsnog

Who says you can't teach an old horse new tricks? Certainly no one told Favourite Treat, who on his 43rd career start, but first at six furlongs, ran out a comfortable winner of the claimer for trainer Ruth Carr and rider Jack Garritty.

Having plied his trade between seven furlongs and a mile since joining Carr from Mark Johnston in 2014, Favourite Treat’s current trainer thought this opportunity was too good to be true despite the alien trip – and so it proved.

“He was well in at the weights so I thought it was worth the risk dropping in trip and it’s paid off,” said Carr.