Delacroix lands Derby Trial Stakes at Leopardstown 

Roosevelt, unplaced on his debut, took a major step forward to make all, at a muddling pace, in the Captain Dara Fitzpatrick Memorial Maiden, holding the challenge of Delta by a head.

SHOWPIECE: Delacroix and Wayne Lordan win the Cashel Palace Hotel Derby Trial Stakes (Group 3). Pic: Healy Racing Photo

On a day when he won the French 2,000 Guineas with Henri Matisse, Aidan O’Brien landed the Group 3 Cashel Palace Hotel Derby Trial Stakes for the seventeenth time when Epsom-bound Delacroix justified 1/3 favouritism in the Leopardstown showpiece.

The Dubawi colt, successful in the ‘Ballysax’ last month, tracked pace-making stable-companion Rock Of Cashel, eased to the front under Wayne Lordan as they straightened for home and, having quickened clear, ran on to beat promising Dundalk maiden winner Purview, having only his second start, by two and three-quarter lengths.