CONOR Hoban announced his retirement from the saddle after partnering Samrogue to win the View Restaurant At Dundalk Handicap.

The 9/2 chance, trained by Ross O’Sullivan, came from well back to beat Below Deck by a neck and Hoban won’t have been unduly concerned when the stewards imposed a five-day whip ban.

The popular Westport native, who has ridden over 200 winners including two Irish Cambridgeshires and an Irish Cesarewitch, got a great reception from his weighroom colleagues on his return to the winner’s enclosure.

Hoban reflected: “That’s it now. It’s great to ride a winner for Ross and for Brendan Cooney (who owns the winner with his daughter Yvonne Lavin). Brendan has been a great supporter of mine.

“Luckily enough I have another career that’s going quite well at home, with the breaking and pre-training, so I’ll focus on that now. I’m getting a good bit of support and it’s great that it’s going well.”

Moral Turpitude showed gate speed worthy of an American-trained Breeders’ Cup contender when bolting up in the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Maiden. Drawn widest, the 15/8 chance was electric from the gates and made all to beat Sweetest by six lengths in the colours of the Branan Syndicate.

“We put her in the gate on Wednesday morning because she missed the break the last time,” said trainer Danny Murphy. “She’s pretty handy and she’ll come back for the winners’ race here in two weeks.”

LITTLE Queenie, backed from 10/1 into 13/2 before the off, recorded her third win of the year in the Gateway Hotel Dundalk Race & Stay Handicap.

Regular rider Robert Whearty took her to the front after a furlong and the Michael Connolly-owned winner kept on well to account for Apache Outlaw by a length and a half.

“We said one way or the other she was going home after this,” said winning trainer Paul Flynn.

“She’ll go home to Christmas anyway and might come back here before it finishes. She’ll keep going next year and if we get a bit of blacktype next year the owner would be delighted.”

Doubled up

Flynn doubled up with Feature This (16/5) in the first division of the Irishinjuredjockeys.com Handicap.

Owned by Ian Brassil and Brian McInerney, the winner raced close to the pace under Shane Kelly and led over a furlong out before prevailing by a short head from Skontonovski

“We were trying to make her stay further but that’s probably her trip,” said Longford-based Flynn. “She probably needs a true run race and was back down to a winning mark, that was the key too. She is for sale because the owners want to buy a new one.”

On an evening of doubles, Robert Whearty joined the party when winning the concluding Story Of Dundalk Stadium Book Buy Online Handicap on 5/1 chance Luke Short who came from mid-division to score by half a length from Jaafel.

Ronan Whelan, the rider of third home Ameerat Jumeirah, was given an eight-day suspension for careless riding after having been found to have caused interference halfway down the straight.

The winner is trained for The Spice Of Life Partnership by Noel Meade who said: “He wants quick ground, he just got lost in the muck at Leopardstown. If there is another race for him here we might run again but if not we’ll probably have to wait until next year.”

KEVIN Coleman was another trainer to bag a brace with his first winner coming courtesy of the well backed Benavente (15/2) who came from off the pace in the Parkview Provisions Handicap.

The Twilight Son gelding led close home under Joey Sheridan (four-day whip ban) to beat Dance Night Andday by half a length.

“Journalist Brian Sheerin is one of the Benavente Partnership and bought him from Richard O’Brien to go for the Racing League but he didn’t get into any of the races,” said Coleman.

“I haven’t improved him or anything, I think the race went well for him tonight. The day he was second here in the claimer for Richard he probably should have won. Brian actually got married during the week so they are over in Rome watching it.”

Fleetfootsoldier (13/2) completed Coleman’s double when landing the second division of the Irishinjuredjockeys.com Handicap under 10lb claimer Calum Hogan.

The latter did well to anchor his keen-going mount towards the rear and gradually brought him into contention in the straight to score by three quarters of a length from Pink Socks.

“It’s grand to get the win for Calum because he’s a big lad and the weight is going to go against him. It’s great for the new owners as well, the Square Bar Racing Club in Portlaoise.

“Mick Scully and Conor Sweeney have just bought him off me. There is going to be a bit of drinking in the Square Bar tonight but I won’t be there, I’ll be on the M50!”

Having made the frame in a couple of decent maidens in the spring, Persian Jewel returned from a layoff to take the Book Online At DundalkStadium.com Maiden for Paddy Twomey and Bill Lee.

The 8/11 favourite, owned by Teme Valley, only had to be kept up to her work to beat Not Forgotten by two and a half lengths.

“She had a very good first run and she got a little setback on her second run so we had to give her time to get through that,” said Twomey. “That will probably be it for this year and we’ll look to next spring. She’s a filly that I think will continue to step up through the grades and hopefully she’ll be a blacktype filly.”