Success comes easy for Days at Leopardstown

Success Days is set to challenge for Classic honours as he once again relished the testing conditions with an emphatic victory in the Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial at Leopardstown yesterday.

Surprise winner of the Ballysax Stakes over the course and distance four weeks earlier, Ken Condon’s admirable grey landed the odds this time after the late withdrawal of Aidan O’Brien’s Order Of St George.

The Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby at the Curragh, for which he would have to be added to the entries, remains the big target. However, Condon admits he would also have to consider supplementing Success Days for the Investec Derby if the ground was soft at Epsom.