Favourites Stubbs and Sandiva emulated Dawn Approach and Sky Lantern respectively when justifying favouritism in the listed two-year-old races in Naas yesterday.

Having won the Grand Prix de Paris on Imperial Monarch in Longchamp on Saturday (Bastille Day) Joseph O’Brien returned to domestic action with a bang at Fairyhouse yesterday, completing a fine treble on Parliament Square, Warwick Avenue and Chicago while giving up the ride on After in the featured Belgrave Stakes when deemed to be “feeling unwell”.

GER LYONS saddled his eighth two-year-old winner of the season when Lady Rochford, ridden by Keagan Latham, pipped odds-on favourite Lady Wingshot in the Irish Stallion Farms 2-Y-0 Fillies Maiden at Naas last night.

CHAMPION jockey Johnny Murtagh, who returned to action after a six-day suspension on the ill-fated Age Of Aquarius at Goodwood last Thursday, regained the winning habit when doubling up on two-year-olds Lake Ontario and Lightening Thief at Naas yesterday.