No Rite Of Passage or Saddler’s Rock, both live Ascot Gold Cup candidates, makes this evening’s Listed Seamus and Rosemary McGrath Memorial Saval Beg Stakes at Leopardstown less interesting than it might have been.

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.