Gleneagles has to work hard for Tyros success

Odds-on favourite Gleneagles and 14/1 shot Jack Naylor grabbed the Group 3 glory in last night’s two-year-old twin features at Leopardstown.

The Aidan O’Brien-trained Gleneagles, winner of his maiden at the Curragh last time, produced what can only be described as a workmanlike performance to outpoint Tombelaine and Convergence in the three-runner JRA Tyros Stakes and was left unchanged at 25/1, by Boylesports, for the 2015 Qipco 2,000 Guineas.

Joseph O’Brien settled the full-brother to Irish 1,000 Guineas winner Marvellous (unlikely to race again) in last place as Convergence set a muddling pace. Challenging off the home turn, Gleneagles quickened into a narrow lead approaching the furlong-pole but from that point, had to be hard-ridden to triumph by three-quarters of a length.