Timely boost for Oxx

Trainer John Oxx, who leaves this morning for New York where he'll saddle Azamour for the Breeders Cup Turf at Belmont on Saturday, received a timely boost at the Curragh yesterday when Lifetime Romance, Artist's Muse and Redstone Dancer provided him with a treble.

And the Breeders Cup connection was strong in the opener as Lifetime Romance is a grand-daughter of Ridgewood Pearl, which won the Breeders Cup Mile at Belmont in 1995 for Oxx, Johnny Murtagh, and is also owned by Sean and Anne Coughlan.

“She's a nice filly,” explained Oxx after recording only his third juvenile success of the season,