GER Lyons and Colin Keane enjoyed a memorable afternoonwhen recording a treble at the Royal Ascot Trials fixture at Naas, completed by Babouche, as the Group 1-winning juvenile returned to her very best in the Group 3 Goffs Lacken Stakes. Sent off 2/1, the Juddmonte home-bred led under two furlongs out, staying on strongly to beat 4/5f Whistlejacket by two and three-quarter lengths.

Winning trainer Lyons said: “That’s the first time I’ve seen that this year from her. We sucked it up and we went to Cork; it wasn’t the obvious right thing to do, but it was the right thing to do for what I was seeing at home.