Review leopardstown 17th Aug

< Alexios Komnenos won the feature Invesco Pension Consultants Desmond Stakes at Leopardstown on Thursday evening.

Roger Varian's Morando was well supported in the market, but the four-year-old was no match for Fozzy Stack's lightly-raced Choisir colt who tracked Custom Cut under Chris Hayes before taking it up inside the final furlong and going on to score by a length and a half from Galway Festival winner Music Box

The 6-1 chance kept on well under pressure close home and was always holding Aidan O'Brien's inmate for Group Three success.

The master of Ballydoyle was out of luck there but trained the first two home in the Irish Stallion Farms EBF (C & G) Maiden and it was Nelson (1-2 favourite) who ran out a comfortable winner under Donnacha O'Brien.

The son of the mighty Frankel had shaped with promise in two previous starts and made it third time lucky at the expense of his stable companion Christopher Robin

Dermot Weld's string have turned the corner and Chiara Luna (4-5 favourite) looked a smart filly when winning the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Fillies Maiden on debut.

The daughter of War Front and Princess Highway, who boasts an entry in the Group One Moyglare Stud Stakes, was all the rage in the betting when action got underway at 5.05 and she didn't disappoint.

She tracked the leaders under Pat Smullen in the early part and stayed on best to beat Modern Love by three quarters of a length.

There was further evidence of the Weld revival when Bella Estrella (7-2) completed a double on the card for the master of Rosewell and the jockeys' championship-chasing Smullen in the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Fillies Maiden finale.

Donal Kinsella and Niall McCullagh teamed up to success in the Idealgraphix.ie Handicap courtesy of Ducky Mallon (7-1), while the Happy Mondays Apprentice Handicap went the way of the Jim Bolger-trained, Daniel Redmond-ridden Mainicin (8-1) and Atlas (3-1 favourite) won the Bulmers Handicap for Denis Hogan and Leigh Roche.