Amralah won a 10-furlong listed contest at Newbury on Saturday, and Simba was a three-length winner of a nine furlong listed race at Hoppegarten on Sunday. The latter event occurred around 40 minutes after Jim Bolger’s homebred five-year-old Parish Hall won the Group 3 Meld Stakes (For The Defence Forces Cup) over 10 furlongs at the Curragh.

This was a third pattern success for Parish Hall, and the horse who beat the subsequent classic star Power in the Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes of 2011, represents the first crop of his Kildangan Stud-based sire.