PADDY Twomey and Billy Lee stole the show on a highly lucrative afternoon at the Curragh when plundering the two feature races with genuine classic contenders for next season.

There was an enormous wow factor from a sensational debut win for One Look in Europe’s richest two-year-old race, the Goffs Million, as the Connolly Racing Syndicate’s €65,000 purchase at last year’s Orby Sale hosed up by six lengths.

Backed from 14/1 down to 5/1 for good measure, the Gleneagles filly posted a sizzling performance to beat experienced rivals rated 101 (runner-up Cherry Blossom), 98 (third-placed My Mate Alfie) and 96 (fourth-placed Storm Miami - bringing real substance to the form.

The Curragh demolition job saw her introduced at 20/1, and then cut to 14/1, for next year’s 1000 Guineas with Paddy Power.

Winning connections collected a whopping €610,000 in prize money, but the race was also a fruitful one for Ger Lyons, who earned €258,720 in beaten prize money through saddling the third, fourth, fifth and 10th.

Twomey said: “She’s a nice filly and she’s been a nice filly all year. I thought I would have run her earlier but it’s only the way it worked out - she was just ready to run this week.

“I gave her an Irish 1000 Guineas entry a few days ago. Coming into today, I thought she was ready to start and good enough to be competitive. The plan was to track Frankie [Dettori on Cherry Blossom] and see how we got on.”

Derby dreams for Deepone

The first leg of Twomey and Lee’s brace came in the Group 2 Alan Smurfit Memorial Beresford Stakes as Deepone (3/1) took no prisoners from the front and boxed on tenaciously to strike by a length and three quarters.

Vimal Khosla’s Study Of Man colt has never looked short of pace over a mile and was an eyecatcher when fourth to Diego Velazquez at the Irish Champions Festival just a fortnight earlier.

Under more prominent tactics this time, he could not be caught and earned quotes of 33/1 with bookmakers for next year’s Derby at Epsom.

Twomey said: “He’s a nice horse who has been a work in progress. We’ve been educating him. I felt he had come out of the last race in great form.

“He’s a strong traveller and finds plenty; I think he’s a mile-and-a-quarter or mile-and-a-half horse next year. Hopefully for Vimal he’s a Derby horse. That’ll be it for this year.”

ADO McGuinness gained an overdue first premier handicap winner of 2023 as Curragh specialist Laugh A Minute popped up in the dying strides to capture the €45,000 Fitzpatrick’s Mercedes-Benz Joe McGrath Handicap under 5lb claimer Adam Caffrey.

All appeared to be set for another big-handicap success for Harry’s Hill when leading the pack inside the final half furlong but the Shamrock Thoroughbreds-owned stalwart thundered home late to oblige by a head at 8/1.

McGuinness said: “Adam got chinned on the line with Saltonstall this year in the Lincoln, so that was a good reward for him - he gave him a great ride. This horse has been running solid all year once he gets his ground. It’s great for him to get a pot.

“There’s a race at York for him in the middle of October that he was second in a couple of years ago. He’ll probably go back there as there should be juice in the ground.”

Dagoda’s double

McGuinness supplied the favourite, No More Porter, in the seven-furlong John Ormonde Wexford Sand Handicap but that consistent handicapper could only muster up a staying-on third behind Dagoda, who made it back-to-back Curragh wins for trainer Jenny Lynch at 15/2.

Direct Bloodstock’s five-year-old had been 0-23 prior to winning a maiden here a month earlier but appeared to gain confidence from that breakthrough win last time and is now racking up wins before she heads to the breeding sheds.

Leigh Roche deputised for the suspended Seamie Heffernan, scoring by a length and a quarter at odds of 15/2.

Lynch said: “It was unfortunate for Seamie but Leigh is riding out of his skin. I’m delighted with her and we’re looking at bringing her back here again in two or three weeks. She handled the [yielding to soft] ground well.”

Hassett family on fire

A smashing season for Martin Hassett and his grand-nephew Wayne at the Curragh continued when Magic Charm asserted clear by two lengths to win the Ornella Underwriting Ltd Equine And Bloodstock Insurance Apprentice Handicap over a mile.

The 17/2 winner, owned by Deirdre Hassett, marked a third success from just 12 runners at Irish flat racing headquarters this year for the trainer-jockey combination, having also finished second earlier on the card with Harrys Hill.

“We knew on a stiff track here today with soft ground, he was the banker,” said the winning trainer.

“He’ll keep going and will probably even go over hurdles. He was the only horse in the yard who hadn’t won up to today but he can join the rest of them now as a winner.”

GER Lyons registered one of his most impressive two-year-old winners of the season when Pipsy bolted up in the opening Bermingham Cameras Photo Finish Irish EBF Maiden over six furlongs.

Colin Keane’s mount had shaped promisingly when second to subsequent Goffs Sportsman’s Challenge winner King Cuan on debut at Cork, and this was a smart step forward to collect by three and a half lengths in the colours of Patrick Cosgrove.

Lyons said of the 11/4 winner: “It was no more than you’d expect after seeing the form of King Cuan. This has always been a filly we’ve liked and definitely a maiden winner. Colin was adamant she’d handle the ground and that she’ll handle Dundalk so we’ll go for the Mercury Stakes there next. We knew we had natural improvement from her debut and she’d win a good maiden, but I was just worried about the ground.”

Valley off the mark

Donnacha O’Brien was eager to pay tribute to the team who helped Yosemite Valley get back on track in the six-furlong DMG Media Maiden on route to a return to stakes company. The Niarchos family’s three-year-old, who drew four and a quarter lengths clear under Gavin Ryan as 5/6 favourite, was making his second appearance of the season, having missed 411 days after his second to Little Big Bear in last year’s Group 3 Anglesey Stakes.

O’Brien said: “We always thought he was a group-class horse and, to be fair, it’s been a long road back for him. There are a lot of people who have put in plenty of hard work to get him here so it’s great to get him back. I think there’s a conditions race over seven back here in a few weeks. He could run in that.”

Kinirons collects

A fine run of form for Andrew Kinirons rolled on in the concluding Manguard Plus Maiden over a mile and a quarter when Nostringsattached (6/1) gained a deserved breakthrough win under Robbie Colgan for owners Jim and Ava Browne. The four-year-old filly had finished second on her previous two appearances this season and was opening her account at the sixth attempt. She stayed on to edge out 5/2 joint-favourite Shrewsbury Road by half a length. Kinirons said: “She’s a lovely big filly for Jim and Ava. Robbie gave her a brilliant ride. I think there is a big pot in her and I might try to twist the owners’ arms to jump a hurdle.”