Workmanlike Marengo takes the spoils

Battle Of Marengo produced a workmanlike performance to land the Juddmonte Beresford Stakes and provide Aidan and Joseph O’Brien with the middle leg a of a treble at the Curragh yesterday

The Galileo colt, sent off at 4/9 in a poorly-supported, four-runner affair, completed his hat-track with three-and-a-half lengths to spare over Orgilgo Bay, giving Aidan O’Brien a remarkable twelfth success in this Group 2 juvenile event over a mile.

Battle Of Marengo had to be driven clear by Joseph to assert. But the colt’s trainer was more than satisfied: “Joseph said he hated the ground. So you’d have to be delighted with that.