Victories for So You Think in the Prince of Wales’s Stakes and Duntle in the finale were the only bright spots in an otherwise dismal afternoon for punters on the second day of Royal Ascot.

Ishvana (20-1) gave Aidan O’Brien a great start to day two of Royal Ascot ahead of So You Think’s victory in the Prince of Wales’s Stakes when winning the Jersey Stakes.

Aidan O'Brien got off the mark for Royal Ascot 2012 as apparent second-string Ishvana claimed the Jersey Stakes.

Coolnagree might go in search of Pattern-race success at Leopardstown in two weeks’ time.

Coolnagree might go in search of Pattern-race success at Leopardstown in two weeks’ time.

Mick Channon, who went all the way to the top as a soccer player with Southampton and England, cemented his place as a first-class trainer when saddling Samitar to land the Etihad Irish 1000 Guineas at the Curragh yesterday.

Samitar gave trainer Mick Channon and young jockey Martin Harley their first taste of Classic glory with a surprise victory in the Etihad Airway Irish 1,000 Guineas at the Curragh.

Homecoming Queen faces seven rivals as she attempts to follow up her surprise victory in the 1000 Guineas at Newmarket in the Etihad Airways-sponsored Irish equivalent at the Curragh on Sunday.

Homecoming Queen faces seven rivals as she attempts to follow up her surprise victory in the 1000 Guineas at Newmarket in the Etihad Airways-sponsored Irish equivalent at the Curragh on Sunday.

Mikel Delzangles has confirmed Hermival as an intended starter in Saturday’s Abu Dhabi Irish 2000 Guineas at the Curragh.

Joseph O’Brien, who will be in the hot seat on favourite Camelot in Saturday’s Qipco 2,000 Guineas, proved himself in top form with a double in Dundalk last night.

Aidan O’Brien’s David Livingston, who lowered the colours of the highly-touted Akeed Mofeed in the Beresford Stakes, is one of 12 entries in Sunday’s P.W.McGrath Memorial Ballysax Stakes at Leopardstown.

Blinkered for the first time, the David Wachman-trained Chrysanthemum landed the first stakes race of the new flat season, the Group 3 Lodge Park Stud Park Express Stakes, when proving too strong for favourite Twirl and Princess Sinead in glorious sunshine at the Curragh yesterday.

ON a day when reigning champion Pat Smullen completed a superb treble to keep his title ambitions alive, the Aidan O’Brien-trained Nephrite defeated the highly regarded, odds-on favourite Born To Sea in the Group 3 Killavullan Stakes at Leopardstown yesterday.

Nephrite upset the odds-on Born To Sea with a decisive win over Sea The Stars’ brother in the JRA Killavullan Stakes at Leopardstown.

John Oxx’s Born To Sea faces six rivals as he bids to keep his unbeaten record intact in the JRA Killavullan Stakes at Leopardstown on Sunday.

KASTANIA can prove good enough to land the nap in the moderate Fairyhouse Venue Hire Maiden at the Co Meath track tonight.

DAVID WACHMAN’S Requinto is fancied to lead his rivals a merry dance in the five furlongs Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Race at Cork this afternoon.