FOUND A Fifty (11/4) emulated the mighty Big Zeb in becoming one of only a pair of triple winners of the Bar 1 Betting Fortria Chase (Grade 2), rediscovering his old spark to provide Gordon Elliott with a treble on day one of the Navan Racing Festival.

Ground-related withdrawals have been garnering plenty of attention at Cheltenham this weekend, but Navan, which raced on ground officially described as yielding, good to yielding places on the chase course, was not immune to the same challenges on Saturday. Most notably, Willie Mullins opted to make big-race favourite Majborough a non-runner in the Fortria (just as he did with Mighty Park in the beginners’ chase), and that withdrawal changed the shape of this race considerably.