One Cool Cat will head straight for the 2000 Guineas – for which he is a red-hot favourite – after emerging triumphant from what was arguably the two-year-old showdown of the year so far at the Curragh yesterday.

British raider Carnival Dancer just failed to land the spoils in the Meld Stakes as Mingun stepped up in trip and class to land the Leopardstown feature.

TOMMY STACK’S Swiss Roll gets the nap to land a very competitive Irish Stallion Farms Noblesse Stakes, a Listed event for fillies, at Naas tonight.

KEVIN Prendergast’s rapidly improving Wathab gets the nap to land the Listed Rochestown Stakes at Leopardstown tonight.

BLACK SAM BELLAMY, last of nine at Longchamp previously and absolutely friendless in the market, streaked away with the Group One Tattersalls Gold Cup at the Curragh yesterday.