Curragh report: John Carr describes himself as "the last dairy farmer left near Dublin" but the Maynooth-based trainer managed to trump some very famous names at the Curragh yesterday.

The Arc de Triomphe fourth Acropolis was a heavily backed favourite for the AES Alleged Stakes, and his main danger Cairdeas raced in the Presidential colours, but neither could cope with Carr's outsider Sublimity who sprang a 16 to 1 shock in the Listed race.

Sublimity was purchased out of the Michael Stoute yard for just 30,000 guineas by owner Bill Hennessy last October despite having won a Stakes race at Doncaster the previous March.

The original plan was to go hurdling but an intended debut at Fairyhouse on Easter Sunday was abandoned when Hennessy decided to keep the horse's novice status for next season.

Carr had only had one previous runner at the Curragh but significantly Johnny Murtagh was keen to team up for Plan B. The former champion jockey had ridden Sublimity to win that Stakes race at Doncaster and was convinced the five-year-old had a chance if he relaxed better.

Murtagh adopted the same front-running tactics that worked so spectacularly on the Hennessy-owned Windemere in last year's Saval Beg Stakes and they worked again with Sublimity beating Cairdeas by a length and a half.

The placings of Cairdeas and Acropolis were subsequently switched by the stewards after Pat Smullen's mount was judged to have caused interference. Smullen received a one-day ban.

That mattered little to the Sublimity camp, however. Carr trains 20 horses as well as farming, but up to now he was mostly known for some profitable raids on the smaller tracks in Scotland and the north of England. "He is a very good horse but we thought winning would be too good to be true," he said. "He wasn't even on our list when we went to the Newmarket Sales because we thought he would be making silly money."

"John (Murtagh) said the problem with the horse before was him sweating up before his races and getting excited," said the owner. He was in his box for 23 hours a day at Stoute's but here he is out in a paddock all day and rolling around with the cows."

The Group Three Castlemartin and La Louviere Studs Gladness Stakes fell to more familiar connections as Mustameet kicked off his four-year-old campaign with a one-length defeat of Steenberg.

The winner, owned by Sheikh Hamdan, missed most of last season due to a cracked canon-bone but has already made up for lost time.

"He had been working great and we had a clear run with him. Last year he was only three quarters fit when he won at Leopardstown. He should get 10 furlongs," said trainer Kevin Prendergast.

Jamie Spencer's flying visit paid off with a double highlighted by Indesatchel's very impressive defeat of Merger in the Listed Oak Lodge Loughbrown Stakes.

"He has been working very well and is a different horse this year.

" He was never happy with his back last season. He doesn't get a mile but he could be a horse for something like the Jersey Stakes," said trainer David Wachman.

Spencer doubled up on the Charlie Swan-trained Saintly Rachel in the 10-furlong handicap and the John Oxx-Michael Kinane team also doubled up with the impressive Hazariya in the fillies maiden and Icklingham in the two-mile race.

"Hazariya could run in the Athasi even though she is a half sister to Hazarista and could go another couple of furlongs," said Oxx.