Bolshoi Ballet cut for Epsom Derby glory after Ballysax Stakes success at Leopardstown

Ryan Moore and Bolshoi Ballet on the way to victory in the P.W. McGrath Memorial Ballysax Stakes (Group 3) race at Leopardstown. Picture: PA Wire

Bolshoi Ballet was cut to single figures in the ante-post market for the Epsom Derby after an impressive return to action in the Group 3 PW McGrath Memorial Ballysax Stakes at Leopardstown.

Winner of a maiden on the second of his three runs as a juvenile, all of which were in October, he made quite an impression then and enhanced it with this display. A brother to Southern France, who was placed in an English and Irish St Leger, Ryan Moore was keen to get a lead aboard Aidan O’Brien’s runner as Catena Zapata set a modest gallop.