Marengo wins Ballysax battle

Battle Of Marengo laid down an early marker for the Investec Derby with a determined triumph in the P.W. McGrath Memorial Ballysax Stakes at Leopardstown.

A winner of three of his four starts as a juvenile, rounding off his campaign with victory in the Beresford Stakes at the Curragh, Battle Of Marengo was sent off an 8-13 favourite to give trainer Aidan O’Brien a seventh victory in the first recognised Derby trial of the Flat season.