O'Brien and Fallon off the mark
Kamarinskaya upstaged her better-fancied stable companion Beauty Bright to take the Dimitrova 1,000 Guineas Trial Stakes at Leopardstown.
The first two are trained by Aidan O’Brien who was completing an 80-1 double as he opened his account for the new campaign.
Seamus Heffernan soon had the Ballydoyle second string at the head of affairs in the Group Three contest over seven furlongs and she gamely kept her rivals at bay.
The 8-1 shot held on by two lengths from the staying-on Beauty Bright, the 5-4 favourite ridden by Kieren Fallon, to register the first success of her career.
She was cut to 16-1 from 33-1 with totesport for the Stan James 1000 Guineas at Newmarket next month.
O’Brien said: “She’s very good. She’s a lovely big filly, is very valuable now and I’m delighted with her
“She’ll run in one of the 1000 Guineas – probably either the French or the one at Newmarket.”
Of the runner-up, O’Brien added: “Beauty Bright really needs fast ground. She’d be a possible for Longchamp as well as she is suited by going round bends.”
Heffernan was delighted with the winner.
“She’s strengthened up a bit over the winter and she’s done it well today,” he told At The Races.
“I was hoping I might be second to Beauty Bright.
“She’s a nice moving filly. There was no pace early so I thought I’d let her use her action.
“The ground is yielding to soft and is drying all the time.”
Sacrosanct, owned by O’Brien’s wife Ann Marie, had given the trainer and Fallon their first victory of 2006 in the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Fillies Maiden.
The O’Brien team were out of luck in the Leopardstown 2,000 Guineas Trial as James Joyce could only finish fourth behind Yasoodd.
The sole British raider came from last to first to land the Group Three contest over a mile for West Ilsley trainer Mick Channon and jockey Chris Catlin.
Fallon attempted to make all the running on James Joyce and still led inside the final furlong until he was swallowed up in the last 100 yards.
Yasoodd (8-1) was the last to challenge on the outside and got up close home to score by a neck from Heliostatic with Rekaab a close third and James Joyce fourth of the five runners.
“I’ve sat on him a few times at home and I’ve been impressed with the way he has been working,” Catlin told At The Races.
“They went a sensible pace and he just needed his mind making up. He was hanging fire a little bit but as soon aI pulled him out and switched him he quickened nicely to the line.
“He’s quite a hardy horse. He was busy last year but it’s nice to see he has trained on this year.”
