'Placed A Big Emphasis On This Festival' - Owner, Trainer and Jockey to watch at Navan It's the Navan Racing Festival this weekend and the Co Meath venue has attracted some stellar names for two days of high-quality jumps racing. They include the Queen Mother Champion Chase winner Marine Nationale and the chasing debutant Kopek Des Bordes. We have picked out an owner, trainer and jockey worth keeping an eye on across the weekend at Navan. BOYLE Sports Betting Offer Owner — Bective Stud With the Bective Stud Farm located nearby on the banks of the River Boyne, it is little wonder that Noel and Valerie Moran's colours are going to be well represented across the weekend. Perhaps the big one for them comes in the Grade 2 Railway Bar Lismullen Hurdle when The Yellow Clay leaves behind novice company and seeks to continue his excellence from last season. Soon after, the likeable Found A Fifty is one of a classy field of seven set to contest the Bar One Racing Fortria Chase, with Queen Mother Champion Chase winner Marine Nationale as well as Grade 1 scorers Solness, Captain Guinness and Dinoblue featuring in a high-quality lineup. The Bective Stud operation continues to grow and they will have newcomers Ziso — a filly by Yeats — in the bumper on Saturday before Australia gelding Wackestone goes in a 3-Y-O Maiden Hurdle on Sunday. The owners also saddle Wingmen and My Trump Card in the Race And Stay Irish EBF Beginners Chase on Sunday's card. Trainer — Gordon Elliott It's hard to get away from Gordon Elliott at this meeting. He has won the Troytown seven times and he will saddle seven runners in the big race on Sunday. He, too, is based in Co Meath and will have placed a big emphasis on this meeting. Across two days, the Cullentra supremo will saddle more than 40 runners at Navan and he should pick up some prizes. Pied Piper leads his assault on the Troytown, while The Yellow Clay will be expected to score in the Lismullen Hurdle and Found A Fifty has his date with class opposition in the Fortia. Jigoro and Ballybow are promising sorts going chasing, while Kalypso'chance fits the same bill in the John Lynch Carpets & Flooring Monksfield Novice Hurdle on Sunday. Wingmen had lots of good form over hurdles last season and is very much one to note in the beginners' chase on Sunday. Jockey — Darragh O'Keeffe Darragh O'Keeffe is now well into his first season as successor to Rachael Blackmore as stable jockey for Henry de Bromhead, and if he was feeling any pressure, he's been hiding it well. He entered the weekend with a superb 28 per-cent strike-rate across recent weeks and has lots to look forward to over the coming days. He is at Cheltenham on Saturday but turns out at Navan on Sunday for six rides, including Walks In June in the Monksfield Novice Hurdle and Dunboyne in the Troytown. Salsinha scored in superb style on her racecourse bow at Cork in July in a Fillies Flat Race over 2m1f for de Bromhead and the four-year-old goes jumping in Sunday's Irish Stallion Farms EBF Mares Maiden Hurdle with lots of potential.
