Fascinating Rock lands Leopardstown feature

Fascinating Rock got his season off to the perfect start with a workmanlike victory in the Listed Heritage Stakes at Leopardstown.

Representing the red-hot duo of Dermot Weld and Pat Smullen, who can do little wrong at present, he was sent off the 9-10 favourite.

Winner of the Ballysax and Derrinstown Derby Trials last season, the Fastnet Rock colt was just short of the top three-year-olds but with a winter on his back he could be a major player this season.

Running over a mile, a trip short of his best, Smullen had to keep him up to his work but he eventually saw off the persistent challenge of Seanie before Alive Alive Oh stayed on to take second, beaten a length and three-quarters.

Aidan O'Brien's Cougar Mountain, who ran in three Group One sprints having won on his debut last year, stayed on nicely to claim third.

Weld said: "It was a pleasing performance from him. He's very adaptable in that ground.

"He'll probably come back here for the Amethyst Stakes (10 May). He got a little bit tired in the last half-furlong, which I expected.

"He's up a good few kilos on last year but equally he has matured from last year. Hopefully he'll have a long and successful season. We'll look at races between a mile and a mile and a quarter.

"He had a busy year last year and raced on very fast ground. He was a bit stiff and sore after the Irish Derby, so we said we'd leave him off until this year.

"He's always been a very good horse. I see him campaigning here in the immediate future before travelling as the year progresses."

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