Bluestocking gave jockey Rossa Ryan a primary Irish Group 1 victory with success within the Cairn Neighborhood Video games Fairly Polly Stakes at The Curragh on Saturday afternoon.
Educated in England by Ralph Beckett, final 12 months’s Darley Irish Oaks runner-up, needed to battle late to get previous final season’s Group 1 Coronation Stakes winner Emily Upjohn within the one mile two furlongs contest.
With Lumiere Rock and Dylan Browne McMonagle chopping out the early tempo, the John and Thady Gosden-handled Emily Upjohn regarded a severe menace as she loomed up on the surface of the Joseph O’Brien-trained daughter of Saxon Warrior.
With rider Kieran Shoemark wanting assured aboard Emily Upjohn, she was quickly joined by the Juddmonte Farms’-owned Bluestocking and Galway native Rossa Ryan within the saddle.
The 2 fillies battled gamely to the road, with Bluestocking, a daughter of Camelot, holding sway on the road, with half a size known as because the official distance between winner and runner-up.
With the visiting runners taking the primary and second place, Aidan O’Brien’s Content material, with Ryan Moore within the saddle, was better of the house crew, three and three-quarter lengths additional again in third place.
Aidan O’Brien and Ryan Moore had earlier teamed up for a Group double, with Really Enchanting and Jan Breughel tasting success.
Really Enchanting,thirteenth within the Group 2 Queen Mary over 5 furlongs just lately at Royal Ascot, was within the winner’s enclosure as we speak, taking the six-furlong Group 2 Airlie Stud Stakes for fillies from Adrian Murray-trained and David Egan-ridden California Dreamer within the colors of AMO Racing Restricted.
The second a part of the Coolmore, O’Brien, Moore Group double was the success of Jan Breughel within the Group 3 Al Basti Equiworld Worldwide Stakes over one mile two furlongs.
Jan Breughel, a full-brother to Daybreak Rising who was winner of the Queen Alexandra Stakes at Royal Ascot in 2023, had a neck benefit over the Joseph O’Brien-trained and Dylan Browne McMonagle-ridden Trustyourinstinct within the colors of J.P. McManus.
