Famous five for O’Brien

AIDAN O’BRIEN, for the third time in his career, saddled the first three in yesterday’s Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby at the Curragh.

Johnny Murtagh, following much agonising last week, finally came down on the side of Cape Blanco and the son of Galileo answered the powerful driving of his pilot to master a gallant Midas Touch.

Jan Vermeer battled on doggedly to claim third, with Mark Johnston’s Monterosso in fourth and yet another of Brien’s, At First Sight, filling fifth spot.