JUST six days after finishing third to Urban Fox in the Group 1 Juddmonte Pretty Polly Stakes over 10 furlongs at the Curragh, the Aidan O'Brien-trained three-year-old Athena produced an excellent performance to take the Grade 1 Belmont Oaks Invitational Stakes over the same trip at Belmont Park.

Just 10 days before her Curragh effort, the first-crop daughter of Camelot (by Montjeu), finished fourth in the Group 2 Ribblesdale Stakes at Royal Ascot.

Donnacha O'Brien was on board on those two occasions, but Ryan Moore was in the saddle in New York.

Athena's win was almost as impressive as the third-place finish of her stablemate Mendelssohn was disappointing in the earlier Grade 3 Dwyer Stakes.

Also partnered by Moore, the Scat Daddy colt broke well in the mile dirt contest but found little when it mattered. Firenze Fire was a wide-margin winner, with Seven Trumpets second.

The team's Group 3 winner Hunting Horn, another by Camelot, raced just off the leaders in the Grade 1 Belmont Derby Invitational Stakes, and although staying on, he never looked like catching the front two – Catholic Boy and Analyze It – who flashed past the post together.