Sapphire enters Melbourne calculations

Dermot Weld and Pat Smullen, fresh from a reasonably successful Galway, turned their attention to Cork yesterday and duly combined to land the featured Group 3 Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Give Thanks Stakes with Sapphire.

The daughter of Medicean looked to be in a different league to the opposition and duly confirmed such thinking with a smooth success.

The four-year-old was always travelling sweetly in Demurely’s slipstream and this was over once Smullen said go with more than two furlongs to run.