A BACK-to-form Sir Lucan headed a fine afternoon for Aidan O’Brien as he upstaged his odds-on stablemate Wordsworth in the Listed Irish Stallion Farms EBF Yeats Stakes which took centre stage in a treble for the Ballydoyle trainer.

Sir Lucan’s season began with an underwhelming display in last month’s Sandown Classic Trial but the form of his last two starts as a juvenile – in particular his fourth in the Beresford Stakes – made for good reading.