Russian Soul (noseband) holds off the challenge of Timeless Call© Photo Healy Racing
Aidan O'Brien's juvenile Indian Maharajah confirmed he is a colt of immense potential as he kept his unbeaten record with victory in the Coolmore Canford Cliffs Stakes at Tipperary.
An impressive winner on his debut, the beautifully bred son of Galileo and Irish 1000 Guineas winner Again needed to be given a couple of slaps by Joseph O'Brien to go about his work in the Listed contest.
But the 3-10 favourite soon hit the front in the straight and lengthened really well to power three lengths clear of Jim Bolger's newcomer Ceisteach who ran a promising race in second.
Mick Halford's five-year-old Russian Soul who began the year with a lucrative stint in Dubai, earned due reward for a season of consistenly good sprinting with a tidy success in the Listed Abergwaun Stakes.
In mid-division early on under Shane Foley, the 9-4 favourite hit the front from Abstraction inside the final furlong and held Timeless Call who had made her bid down the centre of the track, by a neck.
Willie McCreery's juvenile Hurryupharriet (4-1), third in a Listed contest over course and distance last month, showed plenty of toe from the outset in the McGrath Oil Maiden and cleared away going to the final furlong to win by two and a quarter lengths in the hands of Pat Smullen.
The jockey made it a double when he kept Pat Fahy's 9-10 favourite Ballybacka Queen going strongly to resist the tail-flashing Chicago Girl by half a length in the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Median Auction Fillies Maiden.
Billy Lee always had last year's winner An Saighdiur up with the pace set by Judies Child in the Follow Tipperary On Facebook Handicap and Andy Slattery's 9-2 joint-favourite forged ahead close home to score by a neck.
Claimer Ian Queally rode his first winner when he kept Pat Flynn's always prominent top-weight Mamma Rosa (8-1) going to take the Costello's Tavern Apprentice Handicap by half a length from the fast-finishing Maal
