Pedro lands eventful Phoenix

Pedro The Great, ridden by Seamus Heffernan, gave Aidan O’Brien a record twelfth Keeneland Phoenix Stakes success at the Curragh yesterday.

The 10/1 shot was the shock winner of a dramatic race, in which his better-fancied stable-companion Cristoforo Colombo — apparently full of running — clipped the heels of favourite Probably and crashed with Joseph O’Brien at the furlong-pole.

Meanwhile, Heffernan had gone for home on Pedro The Great. A first Group 1 winner for his sire, Henrythenavigator, he stayed on through the testing ground (following torrential showers) to beat Leitir Mor by two and three-quarter lengths,