Sunday saw Aidan O’Brien complete the Irish Guineas double, but not with the filly the market predicted, as top-class juvenile Precise (4/1) reversed the form with Newmarket heroine and stablemate True Love (4/6f) in the Tattersalls Irish 1000 Guineas.

Precise’s Group 1 wins in the Moyglare Stud Stakes and Fillies’ Mile won over Ryan Moore at Newmarket, where she finished five lengths behind True Love on her first start since October.

True Love’s brilliant win meant that Moore switched sides at the Curragh – his loss was Wayne Lordan’s gain, once again, as Lordan swept by Moore inside the final furlong, with Precise going on to score by two and a half lengths.

True Love had looked a possible winner approaching the final furlong, when she challenged Charlie Appleby’s lightly-raced Newmarket fifth Abashiri, but neither were a match for Precise.

True Love kept on for second, finishing half a length in front of Abashiri, while Paddy Twomey’s Black Caviar Gold finished another two and three quarter lengths further back in fourth.

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“Delighted,” the trainer later commented, before acknowledging of all those involved.

“Jamie, who’s in charge of this filly, does a great job with her, with Trevor, who led her up. Roger rides her at home and Rachel rides her work. .

“She really stepped forward. Wayne gave her a beautiful ride. In Newmarket, Ryan rode her and she was on the wrong side. He had to move early, because his side was behind. Because she needed the run, she did get tired and Ryan looked after her the last half furlong.

“There was always a chance this could happen, but Roger, who rides her at home, told me ‘this is a different filly than going to Newmarket,’ and she showed it there.”

Aidan O’Brien had another reason to celebrate, as the winner was bred by him and wife Anne Marie under their Whisperview Trading banner, with daughter Ana managing the family’s breeding operation.

The daughter of Starspangledbanner is out of a homebred full-sister to Kingfisher, who finished second in the Irish Derby, so attention unsurprisingly went to whether Precise would step up in trip in the Oaks.

“I think you’d have to give her a shot over a mile and a half, wouldn’t you?” Anne Marie O’Brien reflected when asked.

“Obviously, the lads will make the decision,” the trainer replied. “We’ll see how she comes out of it. I’d say there’s a good chance that she could.”

Star sire

As well as completing the Irish Guineas double for Aidan O’Brien and Coolmore partners, Precise completed a cleansweep for Starspangledbanner in the weekend’s classics.

When asked to reflect on the Coolmore Stud sire’s achievements, MV Magnier reflected: “To be fair, a lot has to go to Anthony Mitten, who owns Rosemont Stud in Australia. He was a shareholder in the horse.

“In his first year, he ended up being pretty subfertile. We’re not really sure how it happened or why it happened, but Anthony said he wanted to keep trying with him. He got him going in Australia and he’s turned out to be very fertile – I think he’s got over 100 mares in foal this year.

“It’s incredible for him to come up with Gstaad and this filly. He’s a very good stallion and he was a very good horse himself, to be fair to him.”