Famous afternoon for Weld at Leopardstown

Trainer Dermot Weld dominated the early Irish Classic trials on Sunday as he took all three feature events on an afternoon his rival Aidan O’Brien will choose to forget.

Weld clearly savoured the easy victory of Famous Name in the Leopardstown 2,000 Guineas Trial Stakes before Unwritten Rule dented the Derby aspirations of O’Brien’s Washington Irving in the Foxrock Race.