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Review leopardstown 26th May

Fri 26th May 2017, 21:20

< Order Of St George repeated his victory of 12 months ago in the Seamus & Rosemary McGrath Memorial Saval Beg Stakes at Leopardstown.

Aidan O'Brien's Ascot Gold Cup hero had a surprise Navan reverse on his comeback to atone for but looked more like his old self as he travelled strongly into contention a quarter of a mile from the finish.< Twilight Payment went with him and briefly looked a threat, but Ryan Moore had plenty up his sleeve and the 4-11 favourite pulled two and a quarter lengths clear to complete his racecourse preparations for the Royal meeting in style.

That rounded out a double for O'Brien and Moore, initiated when Auckland finally put his best foot forward to break through in the Cliff At Lyons Maiden.

The well-bred colt let down favourite-backers on two of his three previous outings this year but that didn't stop punters piling into him again, although he had to dig deep to keep Sin Sin half a length at bay as the 5-4 favourite.

Camelback needed every yard of the seven furlongs to justify 7-4 favouritism in the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Maiden.

An excellent third on his debut at this circuit, the Ger Lyons-trained son of Exchange Rate took a while to reel in New To Town but had his head down where it mattered and got the verdict by a head.< St Lawrence Gap weaved between horses to land the Spirit Motor Group Apprentice Handicap.< All Body And Soul went for home, with Ligeti Bottleofsmoke and Prince Charmin' in there pitching too, but the splits came in time for Ross Coakley on Eoin Doyle's 7-1 shot, and he got up by half a length.< Wingingit (5-2 favourite) showed a smart change of gear to defy top weight for the in-form Noel Meade in the Leopardstown Handicap, while Khabaray (6-1) took the Breast Cancer Ireland Handicap and Pandagreen won the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Fillies Handicap.