MAJBOROUGH, Mighty Park and Uncle Pad might have been high-profile, going-related non-runners on day one of the Navan Racing Festival, but Gordon Elliott expressed his complete satisfaction with ground conditions and praised the team at the Co Meath track for their watering.

The popular weekend got under way on ground described as yielding, yielding in places on the hurdle course and yielding, good to yielding in places on the chase track. A total of 1mm of rain had fallen overnight and watering had been ongoing through the lead-up to the meeting.