AIDAN O’Brien did not have a winner at York on Wednesday, but Kew Gardens ran a good St Leger trial, finishing a close-up third in the Great Voltigeur, carrying a 5lb penalty and Fairyland was a game winner of the Lowther Stakes on Thursday.

At Killarney on Wednesday, I Can Fly ran out an impressive winner of the Listed Racing Post Vincent O’Brien Ruby Stakes for O’Brien. She travelled well and she came nicely clear of Rionach, who had run a cracker in the Colm Quinn BMW Mile at Galway on her previous start, when she didn’t have the run of the race at all. And the winning time was good, unsurprisingly the fastest of the six races that were run over a mile on the day.

That was I Can Fly’s first win since she won her maiden on her racecourse debut at Dundalk last September. She was well-beaten when nicely fancied for both the Guineas and the Oaks, but she had run a really encouraging race over seven furlongs in a listed race at the Galway Festival on her previous run, doing best of the hold-up fillies and finishing well to get to within a length of the winner Yulong Gold Fairy.

The Fastnet Rock filly is back on track now and she will be interesting when she steps back up into group company.