WESTERN Australia recaptured the form that saw reach the frame at Group 1 level last season as he gave Aidan O’Brien a second consecutive success in the Irish Stallion Farms EF Yeats Stakes.

Only five went to post for the third edition of this one-mile, five-furlong isted race and the best form belonged to Western Australia by virtue of his close third to Magna Grecia in a Doncaster Group 1 last October. The 2/1 shot hadn’t reached those heights in two previous outings this term but he took a step forward under Donnacha O’Brien who always looked to have the front-running Pythion covered in the straight.