LAST year Earlswood won the mile maiden at Navan that on Tuesday was captured by Wexford Native on his racecourse debut.

The three-year-old son of Teofilo (Galileo) could well be even better than Earlswood who is certainly no slouch having won a trio of Group 3 races since. The manner of this week’s win, the post-race comments of Kevin Manning, and the tasty list of classic entries he holds would suggest that Wexford Native could be a bit special.