12-year-old veteran chaser Jack the Bus showed that he still has an appetite for the game when winning the feature race at Navan, the Foxrock Handicap Chase despite giving Andrew Lynch a couple of hairy moments with blunders at the final two fences.
Trained by Dubliner Peter Casey, who enjoyed a significant success last week with promising novice chaser Flemenstar, the 2010 Troytown Chase winner lumped top weight to victory to stamp his class on proceedings.
Ridden by Andrew Lynch, the veteran survived a bad blunder at the second-last fence to come home three lengths clear of Four Chimneys. Jack the Bus (7-2) had finished seventh when trying to retain his Troytown title and will now head for the Thyestes Chase at Gowran on January 26th.
"I was raging over it," Casey said. "The ground was too fast and the lads at the track wanted to withdraw him but they couldn't contact me. He will go for the Thyestes at Gowran now."
Barry Geraghty escaped unscathed from a nasty incident when the 11-4 favourite Kakagh dived out through the wing at the fence in front of the stands on the first circuit.
Oscar Dan Dan (9-1), who is now with Tony Martin, opened his account over fences in the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Beginners Chase after Willie Mullins' Bagber (8-11 favourite) made a bad mistake two from home that stopped him in his tracks.
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