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.