Solving this afternoon’s Darley Irish Oaks at the Curragh would have been so easy had the Epsom heroine, Taghrooda, as was widely anticipated, met the engagement.

Bookmakers finally clawed back some of the losses from what had a been a punter-friendly Royal Ascot as the six races on day four of the showpiece meeting failed to produce a single winning favourite.

John Oxx will have a very select team of just two for Royal Ascot this year in Saddler’s Rock and My Titania.

My Titania will bid to emulate her illustrious father Sea The Stars by making a winning three-year-old debut in Classic company in the Qipco 1000 Guineas at Newmarket on May 4.

Geoffrey Chaucer provided Aidan O’Brien with his thirteenth victory in the Group 2 Juddmonte Beresford Stakes when getting the better of stable-companion Oklahoma City in yesterday’s feature at the Curragh.