THE blend of youth and experience was the winning of the 2025 Paddy Power Supporting Cancer Trials Ireland Irish Cambridgeshire, as Jagged Edge - the only three-year-old in the line-up - and teenager Wayne Hassett surged through late on to provide the maestro Dermot Weld with yet another win in the €100,000 highlight.

This was the Rosewell trainer’s third win in the space of the last seven runnings of the feature on Pat Smullen Charity Race Day in aid of Cancer Trials Ireland, and the margins were tight in deciding this year’s outcome.

Engines On, racing from 6lb out of the handicap, made a bold bid from the front under Keithen Kennedy, though the 28/1 longshot had a real fight on his hands with ante-post favourite Genuine Article (easy to back at 9/1) a persistent force on his outer. The pair got into a right duel, but it was another of the bottom-weights - racing from 2lb out of the handicap after just three runs - who had the final say.

Hassett overcame a scare when a bump at the furlong pole briefly saw him lose his balance, and an iron, on Jagged Edge. The Newtown Anner Stud Farm home-bred picked up well, however, to prevail by a short-head over the former Weld-trained Genuine Article (a last-time-out Galway Festival winner for Ger Keane). Engines On was a further neck back in third, while Coeur D’or, stablemate of the winner, ran an encouraging race in fourth.

At odds of 22/1, Jagged Edge was continuing a theme of big-priced winners of the Irish Cambridgeshire. With 3/1 favourite Godwinson, trained by William Haggas, beating only one rival home, the record of no winning favourite in this race since 2000 continues. It was also a disappointingly small field of just 15 runners - the lowest turnout since 14 ran in 1999.

Weld said: “Both my horses ran super. The winner is a big horse, who loves to be fresh. When he won a maiden for us at Cork, he looked like he was going to go on but just lost his way. We left him alone and he’s come back nicely.

“The ground [good, good-to-yielding in places] was probably ideal for him, and all horses. Today was the day. I’m delighted for Maurice Regan and Newtown Anner, who are great supporters of mine and they bred him. I was delighted that Maurice’s mum Patricia was here today too. She’s a great lady.”

Admirable Grove

The only other claimer to register a winner on the card was Robyn Donaghue-Leahy, who captured the Al Basti Equiworld, Dubai Apprentice Handicap on Carrigans Grove for trainer Pat Flynn and owner-breeder Sinead Maher.

A recent course runner-up, the 6/1 shot has finished in the first four on nine consecutive runs and was deserving of this half-length success over the front-running Amicitia.

“To get back riding her was a dream and Pat couldn’t have had her in better form,” said the winning rider.

“She’s been more than consistent all year and has been meeting good ones every time. She’s tough and stays going.”

GER Lyons is hopeful that the best is yet to come from Red Letter after the high-class Juddmonte filly notched back-to-back wins for the first time in her career in the Group 3 Snow Fairy Fillies Stakes.

Last season’s close-up Moyglare Stakes fourth got her confidence up with a listed win at Killarney over a mile six weeks earlier, and thrived for the step up in trip on her first start at nine furlongs under Gary Carroll.

The 6/5 favourite found generously for pressure to beat British raider Sand Gazelle by a length and a half.

Lyons, notching his second win in the race after striking with Acanella in 2021, said: “She’s only filling her frame, we’ve had to be so patient with her. Hopefully she’ll fulfil all of her potential in the next 12 months.

“We’ll look at the Blandford Stakes back here at the Irish Champions Festival. She needs an ease in the ground - that’s important. We’ll have a lovely horse to look forward to next year. When she fully matures, she can stay a mile and a half no problem.”

Hawaii impresses

Joseph O’Brien knows exactly what it takes to win the Bet365 Fillies’ Mile, having trained Pretty Gorgeous to do just that in 2020 and rode City Of Troy’s dam Together Forever to victory in 2014, and he could be eyeing up another crack at the Newmarket Group 1 with Queen Of Hawaii.

The market was strong on the claims of 5/4 favourite Sugar Island in the Group 3 Newtownanner Stud Irish EBF Stakes but Philip Antonacci’s filly was much the best in posting a two-and-a-quarter-length victory over Chesham Stakes third Moments Of Joy.

Speaking after Dylan Browne McMonagle continued his red-hot run on the 100/30 winner, O’Brien said: “She was very well bought [for €250,000] by in Goffs Orby Book 1 and won her maiden well. We thought she was a smart filly and you kind of come here to find out. You’d have to be excited about her.

“She went through the line strongly and Dylan said that she always feels like there’s more in the locker. I’d imagine that she’ll either go for the Goffs Million or the Fillies’ Mile, though we could also look at the Moyglare.”

Bright Bear

O’Brien might have been a shade unlucky not to register a double when Which Wolf Wins was stopped in his tracks but still ran on for second in the seven-furlong Kildare House Hotel Nursery Handicap.

There were no such issues for the useful-looking winner, however, as Jordi Bear (6/1) made a smart winning handicap debut for Joey Sheridan, Fozzy Stack and owners John Barrett and Craig Bernick. Leaving behind a disappointing last-time-out effort at Down Royal, he returned to much more like the promise he showed when fourth and sixth in decent maidens to start his career.

Stack said of the length-and-a-quarter success: “His first couple of runs were all right but I’d say at Down Royal he didn’t act on the track. He was gelded afterwards too. Hopefully this horse is progressive. He’s in the Goffs Million so we’ll see about whether we roll the dice in that or not.”

AIDAN O’Brien made it 16 two-year-old winners at the Curragh alone so far this season when Mission Central blitzed his rivals from the front in the Group 3 Heider Family Stables Round Tower Stakes under Wayne Lordan.

The potential for the No Nay Never colt to become a stallion ended once connections opted to geld him following defeat on his debut, but he showed major promise when winning a maiden here by eight lengths immediately after and confirmed that here.

The Tabor-Smith-Magnier-Westerberg-Brant-owned juvenile was always doing enough in front as 11/8 favourite, though there was a highly eyecatching debut in second from Joseph O’Brien’s debutant The Publican’s Son.

“Unusually, Wayne felt he was still green,” said the Ballydoyle handler.

“Wayne said he felt he was only hacking and the lads in the race felt they were flying, that’s the sign of a speed horse. I suppose he could be a Flying Childers type of horse. He’s very fast.”

Mighty Mountain

A double for connections was kicked off the beautifully-bred Hawk Mountain (10/11 favourite) stayed on best to land the John Ormonde Wexford Sand Irish EBF Maiden over a mile. By Wootton Bassett and out of the stable’s dual Group 1 winner Hydrangea, he kept on strongly to see off Jessica Harrington’s 50/1 outsider Mr Vettori by a length and a half.