THE Hugo Palmer stable notched up its first classic success when Covert Love won the Group 1 Darley Irish Oaks at the Curragh and the team struck again on the Sunday when Home Of The Brave made all in the Group 3 Friarstown Stud Minstrel Stakes at the same venue.

The colt beat Gordon Lord Byron and Sovereign Debt by three and a half lengths and half a length, an excellent effort from a three-year-old, and he is another fine advertisement for his sire’s small first crop.