Down in class Square can get off the mark

Dropped to maiden company after a creditable run at Royal Ascot, Parliament Square should get off the mark in tonight’s opener in Naas, the six-furlong Irish Stallion Farms 2-Y-0 Maiden.

An Acclamation colt, trained by Aidan O’Brien, Parliament Square was very green on his debut over this course and distance in May, when a well-beaten fifth behind subsequent Coventry Stakes winner Dawn Approach.

The selection showed the benefit of that experience when stepped-up into listed company in Royal Ascot’s Windsor Castle Stakes.