O'Brien celebrates

Aidan O'Brien passed the century mark of flat winners in Ireland this season with a near 157 to 1 four-timer at Leopardstown yesterday.

Appropriately in a season when his two-year-olds have swept all before them in Europe, it was the third of three juvenile winners that hit the 100 for O'Brien when Homer landed the mile maiden.

However, it was the subsequent success of the 14 to 1 outsider Peach Out Of Reach in the Ballyroan Stakes that confirmed it was the Ballydoyle trainer's day.

The half-sister to Pilsudski had been entered in a Thurles maiden on Thursday but ridden patiently by Michael Kinane, Peach Out Of Reach sliced through the field to beat Golden Rule by three lengths.

In hindsight though the day is likely to be remembered for the confirmation of Monashee Mountain's potential with an effortless success in the Group Three Killavullan Stakes.

Monashee Mountain finished three and a half lengths clear of stable companion Bashkir and O'Brien's response to a query about whether the Danzig colt had 2,000 Guineas potential was emphatic.

"Big time," he said before adding: "I think he will get a mile as he was only getting going at seven furlongs today. He's a smashing big horse that we've given time to but we got him fit so he wouldn't get too fat for the winter."

O'Brien confirmed that Royal Lodge will be his runner in Sunday's Criterium de Saint Cloud where he will bid to land Ballydoyle's sixth juvenile Group One of the term and 13th overseas two-year-old success.

At home the juvenile total is now at 53 with Homer and the newcomer Apollo Victoria adding to Monashee Mountain to also give Kinane a four-timer yesterday.

Apollo Victoria beat off Legal Jousting by a length in the opener but Homer had a much easier time running six lengths clear of another stable companion, Shoal Creek. Homer could have one more race this season in the Eyrefield Stakes.

It was also a day to remember for Curragh trainer Gerry Stack who had his biggest career success with Kenema who blazed home in the McGrath Handicap, a neck clear of the Kinane-ridden One Won One. Kenema's apprentice rider Wayne Lordan had his claim reduced to 5lb afterwards.