Alamshar answers every call for patient Murtagh

CHRISTOPHE SOUMILLON, the Belgian-born superstar of French racing, will wake up this morning feeling like a victim of the three-card trick.

Soumillon was simply outfoxed by a brilliant Johnny Murtagh, as the unbeaten in six races Dalakhani went down by half a length to John Oxx’s Alamshar in yesterday’s Budweiser Irish Derby at the Curragh.

The Aga Khan, sportingly, ran both Alamshar and Dalakhani and reaped a magnificent reward with his charges totally dominating the finish.