IT may not have been the best evening weatherwise at Dundalk Stadium on Wednesday but the meeting ended on a good note for the John McConnell yard when, in a very close finish, the 25/1 shot Yokkell won by a neck.

A four-year-old Fast Company filly ridden by Siobhan Rutledge, Yokkell was having her second start for her Stamullen trainer (having previously been in the care of Jarlath Fahey for whom she scored twice on grass) and for her Cookstown owner Seamus Devlin.