Fleur De Nuit, trained in Galway by John Bleahen, turned over Aidan O’Brien’s hot pot, Marchese Marconi, in the Croome House Stud Handicap at Listowel yesterday.

Joseph O’Brien moved seven ahead of Pat Smullen, 85-78, in the title-race when providing his trainer-father Aidan with a birthday double at the Curragh yesterday.

PAT SMULLEN was seen at his tactical best when guiding the Dermot Weld-trained Sapphire to a convincing all-the-way victory in the Irish Stallion Farms Fillies race at Naas last night, highlight of a 134/1 treble for the champion jockey.