SPIRIT Of Valor gave Aidan O'Brien a Group 2 double at the Curragh when leading all the way to lift the seven-furlong Qatar Airways Minstrel Stakes.

Ryan Moore was able to dictate affairs on the War Front colt, who showed his second in Royal Ascot's Jersey Stakes at odds of 66/1 was no fluke as he kept finding to keep his rivals at bay. The 5/2 joint-favourite crossed the line a length and three-quarters clear of David O'Meara's So Beloved, with the Ed Walker-trained Stormy Antarctic a short head away in third.