Paddy Twomey breaks Aidan O'Brien's Beresford hegemony with Deepone

Deepone ensured a new name will go on the Alan Smurfit Memorial Beresford Stakes trophy as he provided Paddy Twomey with his first win in the Curragh contest.

Aidan O'Brien has won the Group Two a remarkable 21 times and fielded three runners on this occasion, all last time out winners and he had hired the services of Frankie Dettori for Navy Seal.

Colin Keane took the ride on Grosvenor Square while Gavin Ryan was on Chief Little Rock and with Joseph O’Brien running dual winner Stromberg, Twomey’s Study Of Man colt was almost fighting a lone battle against the O’Briens given the only other runner, Andy Oliver’s Ozark Daze, went off at 150-1.

With that possibly on his mind, Billy Lee was ultra-positive on the well-backed 3-1 shot Deepone, who after winning his first two starts had finished second in a Listed race and fourth behind Diego Velazquez in a Group Two.

With two furlongs to run he had kicked almost five lengths clear and while the gap dwindled close to home, he still had a length and three-quarters to spare over Chief Little Rock who just edged out Grosvenor Square for second, with Navy Seal and Dettori only fourth.

Deepone is not for catching in the Group 2 Alan Smurfit Memorial Beresford Stakes, dominating throughout on the front end and galloping out strongly to land the feature event for the @wjlee24786 and @paddytwomey combination