Lee secures a brace on eye-catching Jancis

Billy Lee doubled up at Leopardstown aboard the impressive Jancis (11/2) in the Group 3 Irish Stallion Farms EBF Brownstown Stakes over the extended 7f.

She was a taking winner of a fillies' maiden over a similar trip at this track last month and the step up in class proved no bother to her at all.

Once Lee switched her out in seventh inside the final quarter of a mile, she began to motor into contention.

The Tamayuz filly devoured the ground to sweep to the front 150 yards out. There was no stopping her as she ran away with the spoils by two and a-quarter lengths from Bluedrum (14/1). There was a bunch for the places with Special Wan (9/4f) in third.

Willie McCreery said: “She's a lovely filly. Myself and Nancy (Sexton) spoke last week and it was either here or Killarney next week.

“I just thought that Killarney would be a full field and might be a bit much for her. I thought that she'd been up here and had a good experience the last day so let's come back here.

“Win, lose or draw she'd learn a lot more today, which she did. She's a great walking filly, she's an athlete, and we just took our time with her. We're happy with that.

“We'll come back here for the Matron, I don't know if we'll do anything before that. She's a light-framed filly and she doesn't take much work.

“They were going a good clip today, the last day was a maiden whereas this was a Group 3 with proper hardy horses in it. I just loved the way she picked up when she went through the gears.

“Billy thought there was still more there.

“She obviously flows over good ground so that's what she'll be running on, we'll keep her on that.

“We won't overface her. It's always good ground here and Billy felt even quicker ground as she floats over that ground.”

Additional reporting by Gary Carson