WOOSTER showed his liking for Dundalk when following-up a recent win at the track with victory in the richest race on Friday's card, the Jolly January Dining At Dundalk Handicap.

Noel Kelly's 7/1 chance was held up in the early stages by Chris Hayes, but was travelling best of all when making a line of four at the head of affairs over a furlong out.

Commander Won was the biggest danger in the final furlong, but Wooster was just too good, winning by a length and a quarter.

Kelly said: "He's improving every week. Chris said that there is a nice handicap in him somewhere along the line."

Hayes made it a double on when guiding Richard O'Brien's 5/1 chance Indian Tomahawk to victory in the first division of the www.dundalkstadium.com Handicap.

Marino Marvel led entering the straight and would not go down without a fight, but Hayes' mount found enough when asked and scored by half a length.

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Port Lions' frustrating run continued as the odds-on favourite had no answer to Ship Of Dreams in the Dundalk Stadium Business Club 2018 Maiden.

Michael Halford's 9/10 market leader had finished second on his previous two visits to this track, making it five placed efforts from six outings, and again had to settle for the runner-up spot as he could not match Ship Of Dreams.

Joseph O'Brien's 100/30 chance had shown promise on debut and battled well to win by two and three-quarter lengths under Wayne Lordan, with another three lengths back to Havana Go in third.

Lordan said: "She's a very straightforward filly and she stays well. Dropping back to seven (furlongs) probably wasn't ideal, because she's a filly that will stay, but it shows that she's versatile."

O'Brien made it a double on the card when Zaofu took the Follow DundalkStadium On Twitter Maiden.

Never too far off the pace under Sean Corby, the 7/1 chance travelled strongly and after taking it up two furlongs out, he ran on well to score by a length and a half from Nivvo.

Zaofu had started his career in a bumper back in 2016 before being off the track for a long time, but had returned with a couple of promising efforts at this track.

Corby said: "He had a long layoff, he hadn't run in two years, and I think the first two runs he was just coming on fitness wise."

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