NOT for the first time this season a flat fixture at Navan spelt disaster for punters and Coffee put the final nail in the coffin of favourite backers as he swooped late to deny the odds-on Seville Star in the Lynn Lodge Stud Maiden.

Over the course of the evening there were beaten favourites at prices of 1/6, 10/11, and 11/10, and the well-backed Seville Star (10/11) looked as if he might provide some respite in the penultimate race on the card. Indeed the last-named was coming out the right side of a protracted battle with Hall Pass as the last furlong loomed in this one-mile contest.