“IT’S a good thing I won it!” joked Gordon Elliott in the winner’s enclosure at Navan last Sunday, shortly after Coko Beach gave him a sixth win in the Grade 3 Bar One Racing Troytown Handicap Chase.

Much had been written and said about Elliott’s declaration of 15 horses in the race, but the trainer was steadfast in his views before and after the three-mile contest, and his eight-year-old grey emerged best here from favourite Limerick Lace to make his numerical supremacy count.