Tanaza too good for Alice in the Silver Flash

Tanaza made it two from two as she took the Group Three Jockey Club Of Turkey Silver Flash Stakes under Pat Smullen for Dermot Weld and the Aga Khan.

Having won her maiden over the course and distance last month the daughter of Dubawi was sent off the 7/4 second favourite.

Settled in mid-division she came with her challenge on the outer from the two furlong pole.

She was ridden to lead inside the final 150 yards and kept on well in the closing stages, going on to score by a length and a quarter at the line. Alice Springs was sent off the even money favourite and she had to settle for second under Joseph O'Brien for his father Aidan. Turret Rocks was a further length and a half back in third under Kevin Manning for Jim Bolger.

Dermot Weld said afterwards: "It was a very good performance by her. She's just class. She has a lot pace and is bred to carry it over a distance.

"She's a filly that we've always said will appreciate a little more ease than there was this evening. A lot of Dubawi's want an ease.

"She stays well and is bred to stay really well but she has gears and always had them. I'd say that was a pretty good renewal of the race as they ran along.

"She has lots of pace and I see her a miler. That's as far as we'll ask her to go.

"Pat rode her from a long way off the pace and full of confidence. She'd win over five furlongs the same way she'd win over seven and the good ones do that.

"She'll have one more run this year in the Moyglare."

Pat Smullen added: "I was very impressed with her. She has a very good turn of foot and she really quickened up well.

"She has got a lot of pace, I think a mile is probably going to be her ideal distance. She doesn't look like a stayer, she looks like a sharp, sprinter type filly."

Additional reporting by Gary Carson