Elliott not pleased with outcome of enquiry

Trainer Gordon Elliott wasn't too pleased with the outcome of the two-and-a-half-mile maiden hurdle at Navan today.

The Elliott-trained and Noel and Valerie Moran-owned Folcano was denied by a nose in a tight finish by the John Murphy-trained Brazos.

There was a stewards enquiry announced after Brazos drifted right off the far side rail towards the standside on the run-in and carried the challenging Folcano (10/11f) with him.

Folcano was bumped in the final 50 yards and lost out by a fast-diminishing nose.

However, the result stood although winning jockey Kevin Brouder was deemed in breach of rule 214, in that he had ridden carelessly and he was suspended for two race days.

Gordon Elliott, not a man to ever appear annoyed in post-race interviews, was not pleased with the outcome of the enquiry when he spoke to Racing TV.

"Just watching the re-run again, Brazos (the winner) goes right across the track, Folcano (second) got a bump and he got beat a nose," stated the Summerhill man.

"I think the consistency of these stewards enquiries is barbaric in Ireland at the moment.

"I don't know what you have to do to get a race.

"Do you have to put them literally out across the rails now to get a race?

"There's no consistency, it is disappointing," he added.